The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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[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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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Men may be born free
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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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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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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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