Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
ADLAI STEVENSON ICarelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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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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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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