Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
ADLAI STEVENSON IEggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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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 lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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