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"Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
Truth
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
Man
"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
Nature
"Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach."
Education
"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples."
Adventure
"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."
Party
"Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience."
Change
"The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."
Business
"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed."
Time
"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."
Trust
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