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• The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how…
• To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
• What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
• Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
• Revolutions never go backwards.
• No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in…
• Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
• Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
• Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,…
• Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that…
• There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself.…
• Revolutions are not made, they come.

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