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Oliver Holmes, Jr.

"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."

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"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."

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Akiroq Brost

"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

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"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

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"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

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"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

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"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

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"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

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"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."

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"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."

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"Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!"

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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."

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"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."
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"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
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"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
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"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
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"The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."
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"A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions."
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"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
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"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
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"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
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