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• Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
• The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends…
• The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
• Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be…
• It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example…
• Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as…
• Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
• Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
• We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
• For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are…
• That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
• The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

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