If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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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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Men may be born free
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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