Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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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.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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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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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
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