A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
ADLAI STEVENSON IEggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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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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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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Men may be born free
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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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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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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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[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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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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