"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."

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Source : "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81), 2004.

Adlai Stevenson I

#Patriotic Quotes #Rights Quotes #Insightful Quotes

“When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will be, and the hands of man, even when he fashions and defends the noblest civilization, must forever be bloody hands, for this is a world in which only the strong and resolute nations survive, while the weak, especially the morally weak, who babble about brotherhood and peace, are biologically degenerate and doomed to extinction.”
“Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he free-climbed the Kyoto Banking Tower on a windy day last September.”
“I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.”
“It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.”
“I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.”
“Live for who and what you love.”
“One often makes music to supplement one's world.”
“Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.”

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