[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.
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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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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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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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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 independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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