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2007 May 25
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"Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent
soon find themselves exterminating dissenters.
Compulsory unification of opinion achieves
only the unanimity of the graveyard." |
"The world acquires value only through its extremists play.
They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent." |
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." |
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms -- to chose one’s attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." |
"Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that “freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license,” and they will define freedom out of existence." |
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2007 May 24
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"An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental." |
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice." |
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2007 May 23
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"A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to,
and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind,
however angular, however rasping, however, socially unpleasant it may be;
for it is upon such minds in large measure, that the effective search
for truth depends." |
"Courage is the first of human qualities
because it is the quality
which guarantees all others." |
"One day posterity will remember these strange times,
when ordinary common honesty was called courage." |
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2007 May 22
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"Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history
of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes." |
"The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance.
It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem
to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many
times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human
cost, wholly false." |
"As hard as modern man strives to be free
he is a slave chained to the past." |
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2007 May 21
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"Our tradition is one of protest and revolt,
and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past
while we silence the rebels of the present." |
"Ultimately we know deeply
that the other side
of every fear is a freedom." |
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any
other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst.
Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it
with their lives and freedoms." |
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