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- In wildness is the preservation of the world.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walking (1862)
- Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame
- The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
- Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Autobiography
- 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 - ), in 91-155
- He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear I will choose free will. - RUSH, Free Will
- Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Road Not Taken
- Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
- It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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