Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
ADLAI STEVENSON IEggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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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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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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