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- Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
- Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
- Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
- Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
- You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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