There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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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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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Men may be born free
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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 tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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[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.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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