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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."
"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."
"By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead."
"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."
"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."
"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."
"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."
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