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- The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), 1890
- Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950
- Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683), The Compleat Angler, 1653
- The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), Physiologie du Gout, 1825
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), 'Eleanora,' 1842
- Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), David Copperfield, 1849
- Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
- James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), July 12, 1880
- A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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