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Adlai Stevenson I

Adlai Ewing Stevenson (/ˈædˌleɪ ˈjuːɪŋ/; October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) served as the 23rd Vice President of the United States (1893–97). Previously, he served as a Congressman from Illinois in the late 1870s and early 1880s. After his subsequent appointment as Assistant Postmaster General of the United States during Grover Cleveland's first administration (1885–89), he fired many Republican postal workers and replaced them with Southern Democrats. This earned him the enmity of the Republican-controlled Congress, but made him a favorite as Grover Cleveland's running mate in 1892, and he duly became Vice President of the United States.

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Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

Apathy, Deserve, Indifference, Right, Servant

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

Astrology, Entire, Nation, Political, Reasons, Sky

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Catastrophe, Educational, Men, Stands, Wise

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism.

Cloak, Freedom, Insightful, Patriotic, Rights, Tragedy

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Education, Wise, Money, University, Free, Make

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Confession, Democracy, Political, Self, Soul, Weapon

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

Carpe Diem, Uniting, Communist Manifesto, Yolks, Unite, Eggheads

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

Amount, Animal, Cat, Humanity, Roaming, Unescorted

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Education, Wall, Learning, Man, Handwriting, Against

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Dog, Freedom, Mind, Teacher, Tethered

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Dangerous, Freedom, Liberty, Prison, Security

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

Abomination, Dishonesty, Helping, Lying, Present, Trouble

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

Brave, Dread, Men, Tribunal, Valor, War

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

Abuse, Action, Political, Running, Runs, Wheeled

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Freedom, Opinions, Sound, Tireless, Voice, Voices

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses.

Funny, Golf, Church, Worship, Courses