If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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