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 | "If you would venture, let your mind be bold ... not reckless but
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and
fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to
be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." | |
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Found in the topic Discussion.
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| "America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity,
lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human
happiness, and it has prospered." | |
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Found in the topic Ambition.
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| "If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be
bold." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free
speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the
function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational
fears." | |
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Found in the topic Fear.
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| "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect
liberty when the Government"s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom
are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded
rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by
men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." | |
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Found in the topic Danger.
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| "Behind every argument is someone"s ignorance." | |
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Found in the topic Argument.
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| "To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end
justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in
order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible
retribution." | |
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Found in the topic Crime.
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| "In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest
promise of wisdom in governmental action." | |
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Found in the topic Opinion.
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| "If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law
respectable." | |
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Found in the topic Law.
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| "Low wages are not cheap wages." | |
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Found in the topic Wages.
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| "The most important political office is that of private
citizen." | |
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Found in the topic Citizen.
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| "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared
impossible before they were done." | |
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Found in the topic Impossible.
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