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I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them
Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
It is often easier to fight for one's principles than it is to live up to them.
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Someone asked me ... how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell
Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)
A hungry man is not a free man.
