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- The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- US Declaration of Independence
- So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
- J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964)
- The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
- Domitus Ulpian (100 AD - 228 AD)
- There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
- It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
- Saadi (1184 - 1291)
- Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
- Benjamin Cardozo (1870 - 1938)
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