Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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