Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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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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Men may be born free
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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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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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