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Felix Frankfurter

"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."

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"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."

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Asa Don Brown

"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

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"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

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"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."

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"Most of Jesus' life is told through the four Gospels of the New Testament, known as the Canonical gospels, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are not biographies in the modern sense but accounts with allegorical intent. They are written to engender faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and not to provide factual data about Jesus's life. This left the door of exaggeration open. And through that door all kinds of mystical non-sense crept in and made place right alongside the good philosophical teachings of Jesus."

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Asa Don Brown

"It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery."

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"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

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"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."

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"All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women."

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"History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong."

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"The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4."

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"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society."
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"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
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"Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one."
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"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."
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"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."
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"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."
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"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."
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"It simply is not true that war never settles anything."
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"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."
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"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."
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