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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

Adlai Stevenson I

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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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
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
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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Anand Thakur
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Anand Thakur
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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Anand Thakur
The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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Anand Thakur
Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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Anand Thakur
A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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Anand Thakur
[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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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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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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