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2019 September 20
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"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." |
"I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man." |
"You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency." |
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2019 September 19
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"A radical is one who speaks the truth." |
"He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers." |
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that person that he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind… If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error." |
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2019 September 18
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"I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. -- From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy." |
The people are the masters of both Congress and the courts, not to
overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who would pervert it! |
"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency." |
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2019 September 17
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"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." |
"The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred." |
"A half truth is the worst of all lies,
because it can be defended in partiality." |
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2019 September 16
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"From the utopian viewpoint, the United States constitution is a singularly hard-bitten and cautious document, for it breathes the spirit of skepticism about human altruism and incorporates a complex system of checks, balances and restrictions, so that everybody is holding the reins on everybody else." |
"The Constitution was made to guard the people
against the dangers of good intentions." |
"An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having
and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error
may eventually find its foundations insecure." |
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