The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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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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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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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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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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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