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- I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me,…
- As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as…
- Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.
- If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know…
- The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
- We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts…
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