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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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"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."
"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."
"Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail."
"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
"There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation."
"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."
"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters."
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."
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