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The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.: Justice Anthony Kennedy (1936 - )
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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.: Charles E. Jefferson (1860 - 1937)
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For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Threepenny Opera (1928), Act I Scene 3
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.: William J. H. Boetcker, 1916 (often attributed to Lincoln)
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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The first condition of immortality is death.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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