The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
ADLAI STEVENSON ISelf-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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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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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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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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Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe 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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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