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"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
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