Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
ADLAI STEVENSON IMany wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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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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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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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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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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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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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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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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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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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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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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