A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThe tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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