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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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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."

"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society."

"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."

"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."

"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."

"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind."
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