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• Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is,…
• The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is…
• America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.
• We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt and that it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels…
• The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.
• And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of…
• Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.
• The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.
• The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional…
• If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
• It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.
• It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was…

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