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- Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
- Earl Warren (1891 - 1974)
- Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers.
- US Supreme Court
- Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.
- The Talmud
- When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
- Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
- Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
- Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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