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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Adlai Stevenson I

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Carelessness Dangerous Freedom Liberty Prison Security
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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Alone Appeal Being Strong Ground Ideal Lying Our Providing Stockpile Strength Struggling
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Candor Confession Criticism Dearest Democracy Good Political Self Soul Weapon
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Brave Contended Dread Last Man Resort Tribunal Valor War
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Century Civilization Man Party Save
Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Avoided Haste Many Patience Precipitated Reckless War
Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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Brave God Man Right Struggled
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur

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