Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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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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Men may be born free
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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