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Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws,… — Alexander Hamilton
That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy… — James Madison
Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the… — Thomas Jefferson
The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another… — Walter Lippmann
Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth. — Larry Kramer
People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be… — Michel Foucault
Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice. — Mel White
It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. — Edgar Allan Poe
Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know… — John Steinbeck
You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto… — Unknown Author
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the… — Woodrow Wilson
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by… — Blaise Pascal
We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. — Laozi
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. — Samuel Pepys
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object:… — George Bernard Shaw
Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind… — Walter Bagehot
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in… — William Howard Taft
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what… — Charles Dickens
Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because… — Unknown Author
The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel.… — Margaret Atwood
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment is the understanding… — Rajneesh

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