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- An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
- Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
- The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879)
- In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
- Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926)
- From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
- Charles Sumner (1811 - 1874)
- The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.
- George Jellinek
- A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
- Chaim Weizmann (1874 - 1952)
- That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.
- Harold Laki
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