A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
ADLAI STEVENSON ICarelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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Men may be born free
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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