I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen.
ADLAI STEVENSON IYour public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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Men may be born free
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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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