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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."
"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."
"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."
"My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever."
"But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?"
"The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us."
"I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know."
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"The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at the risk of his life."
"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other."
"Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure."
"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners."
"The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle."
"Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."
"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express."
"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."
"An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing."
"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."
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