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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Adlai Stevenson I

Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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Climate Fear Insightful Patriotic Repression Right Tragedy
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.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
A wise man does not try to hurry history.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

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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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Brave God Man Right Struggled
There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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Avoided Haste Many Patience Precipitated Reckless War
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Carelessness Dangerous Freedom Liberty Prison Security
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Abomination Dishonesty Helping Lord Lying Trouble
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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Apathy Better Indifference Often Right Servant Serve
[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 I

Anand Thakur
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Brave Contended Dread Last Man Resort Tribunal Valor War
A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Century Civilization Man Party Save
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur

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