There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThe tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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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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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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Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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