Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
ADLAI STEVENSON IA lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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[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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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 man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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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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Men may be born free
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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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