The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
ADLAI STEVENSON IYour public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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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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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation.
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