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- The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech, New York, September 9, 1912
- My definition of a free society is where it's safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, Michigan, 1952
- You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938), Address to the jury, trial of Communists, Chicago, Illinois, 1920
- The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.
- C. Wright Mills
- Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
- Henry Luce
- That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
- John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir
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