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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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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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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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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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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
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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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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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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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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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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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