An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThe tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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 wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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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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[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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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 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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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