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- If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
- Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Journals,' 1836
- Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Art,' 1841
- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Histoire d'un crime,' 1852
- How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), speech, January 24, 1860
- Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
- As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885), 'Affurisms from Josh Billings: His Sayings,' 1865
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875
- Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937), 'Country Town Sayings,' 1911
- Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
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