A wise man does not try to hurry history.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThe tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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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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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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