A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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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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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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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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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[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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Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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