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"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

"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."

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

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

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?"

"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."

"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."

"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

"Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?"

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."

"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."

"Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?"
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