The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThe tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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 independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Men may be born free
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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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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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