Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
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.
More Adlai Stevenson I Quotes
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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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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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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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Men may be born free
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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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