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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
"Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written."
"The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it."
"If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"
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"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."
"One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?"
"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."
"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."
"Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children."
"My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes."
"Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture."
"Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument."
"It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country."
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