A wise man does not try to hurry history.
ADLAI STEVENSON IOur 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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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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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
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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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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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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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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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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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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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