Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
ADLAI STEVENSON ICarelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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 man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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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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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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