The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
ADLAI STEVENSON ISelf-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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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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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Men may be born free
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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