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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1998)
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
Putting First Things (1960)
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice dies hard.
It was always accounted a virtue in a man to love his country. With us it is now something more than a virtue. It is a necessity.
We want it to become what it was intended to be — a world society of nations under law, not merely law backed by force, but law backed by justice and popular consent.
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
In matters of national security emotion is no substitute for intelligence, nor rigidity for prudence. To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man — and also a nation.
I think that one of our most important tasks is to convince others that there's nothing to fear in difference; that difference, in fact, is one of the healthiest and most invigorating of human characteristics without which life would become meaningless.
Challenge of a Liberal Faith (1988)
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
The Fine Art of Political Wit by Leon Harris (1964)
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
The Republicans have a "me too" candidate running on a "yes but" platform, advised by a "has been" staff.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
The Stevenson Wit (1965)
True Patriotism, it seems to me, is based on tolerance and a large measure of humility.
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
The Fine Art of Political Wit by Leon Harris (1964)
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
The Quotable Politician (2003)
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
The Stevenson Wit (1965)
The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
The Fine Art of Political Wit by Leon Harris (1964)
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986)
Because we believe in the free mind we are also fighting those who, in the name of anti-Communism, would assail the community of freedom itself.