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- We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Many people consider the things which government does for them as social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
- Earl Warren (1891 - 1974)
- When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Circle, 1921
- We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepare to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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