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- 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)
- A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- 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
- Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
- 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)
- In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
- P. L. Berger
- It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben
- Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.
- Unknown
- So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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