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.
ADLAI STEVENSON ICarelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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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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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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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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Men may be born free
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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