Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
ADLAI STEVENSON IHere brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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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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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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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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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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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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Men may be born free
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