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- It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
- Lord Acton
- The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
- William O. Douglas (1898 - 1980)
- The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
- Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
- Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
- Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
- Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
- A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
- William O. Douglas (1898 - 1980)
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