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The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and… — H. L. Mencken
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts… — Thomas Jefferson
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows… — Mahatma Gandhi
Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of… — Edward Said
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is… — Abraham Lincoln
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against… — Khalil Gibran
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a… — Thomas Jefferson
Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the… — John F. Kennedy
It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing. — Henry A. Kissinger
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person,… — Rose Wilder Lane
Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away… — Vladimir Lenin
The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction. — Douglas MacArthur
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll… — John Grisham
It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life.… — Francesca Annis
I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much… — Nana Mouskouri
So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but… — Emanuel Swedenborg
People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that… — Stephen Covey
Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant.… — Susan Jeffers
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. — Josephine Baker
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. — George Meredith
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as… — William Shakespeare
I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make… — George Carlin

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