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There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
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There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature, and of nations.
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In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that "Carpe Diem" is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?
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Men willingly believe what they wish.
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It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
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Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
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The only way to learn is by changing your mind.
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.
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The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing Freedom of Speech... Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech...
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Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
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You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.
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Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
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This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic--that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.
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What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.
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The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.
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Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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By doubting we all come at truth.
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to denigration without the usual interval of civilization.
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It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.
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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
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The superior man understands what is right. The inferior man understands what is popular.
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If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
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By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart.
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No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped.
more Calvin Coolidge quotes
I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
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Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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History is a vast early warning system.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
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'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it.

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Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

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As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not being hereditary, their collective knowledge, wisdom, and virtue are not precarious. For by these qualities alone are they to obtain their offices, and they will have none of the peculiar qualities and vices of those men who possess power merely because their father held it before them.
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I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right -- then go ahead.
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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
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There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
more Clarence S. Darrow quotes
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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