A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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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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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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[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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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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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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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