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"Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us."
Life
"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
Democracy
"The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action."
Action
"It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it."
Men
"Thou shalt not ration justice."
Justice
"A self-made man may prefer a self-made name."
Man
"In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy."
Dissent
"What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart."
Determination
"Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers."
Life
"We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves."
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"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
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"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."
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"In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march."
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"In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy."
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"There is hope for you when your opinions are in opposition to those of the majority. Your brain mighty be working as it was meant to."
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"A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor."
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"Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man."
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"The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib."
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