Adlai Stevenson I Quotes

Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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Avoided Haste Many Patience Precipitated Reckless War
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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Alone Appeal Being Strong Ground Ideal Lying Our Providing Stockpile Strength Struggling
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Abomination Dishonesty Helping Lord Lying Trouble
A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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Century Civilization Man Party Save
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
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Candor Confession Criticism Dearest Democracy Good Political Self Soul Weapon
Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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Carpe Diem Communist Lose Manifesto Uniting Yolk
Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.
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Brave God Man Right Struggled
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.
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Climate Fear Insightful Patriotic Repression Right Tragedy
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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Carelessness Dangerous Freedom Liberty Prison Security
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
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Apathy Better Indifference Often Right Servant Serve
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Brave Contended Dread Last Man Resort Tribunal Valor War
They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Men may be born free
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
A wise man does not try to hurry history.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
[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.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Anand Thakur

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