The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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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Men may be born 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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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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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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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 man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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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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