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Necessity, who is the mother of invention.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden (1854)
In wildness is the preservation of the world.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walking (1862)
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Autobiography
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.: Justice Anthony Kennedy (1936 - ), in 91-155
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.: Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Road Not Taken
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

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