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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep them in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Letter to Home Secretary Herbert Morrison
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.: William O. Douglas (1898 - 1980), Dissenting, Osborn V. Unites States
The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.: Henry L. Ellsworth, U.S. commissioner of patents, Annual Report, 1843
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I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.: Petronius Arbiter
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A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one and the real one.: J. Pierpont Morgan
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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.: Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1950
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.: General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is as shallow as time.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Essay on Sir Walter Scott, 1881
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The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Temper of Our Time, 1967
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