A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
ADLAI STEVENSON IThe tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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Men may be born 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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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 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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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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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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