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.
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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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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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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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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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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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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