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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.: Whitney Griswold, Address to students at Phillips Academy, 1952
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I can imagine no greater disservice to the county than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Letter to Arthur Brisbane, April 25, 1917
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), Day of Affirmation address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.: Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995), Speech to the Consultive Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, January 23, 1967
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.: Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Orator, chapter 34, section 120
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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics, book 1, chapter 2
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We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), The City in Modern Life, 1926
This nation was founded by many men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Radio and television report to the American people in civil rights, June 11, 1963
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But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.: Herbert Butterfield, Christianity, Diplomacy and War
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