A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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Men may be born free
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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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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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 lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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