[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 man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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 have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen.
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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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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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Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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Men may be born free
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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