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Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

Adlai Stevenson I

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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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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Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
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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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The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 does not try to hurry history.
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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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They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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