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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)

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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

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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)

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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)

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

Victor Cousin (1792 - 1867)

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

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Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)

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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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