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"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to."
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"Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."
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"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to."
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"The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction."
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"Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it."
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"Popular applause veers with the wind."
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"The hole and the patch should be commensurate."
Balance
"I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
Motivation
"I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
Politics
"The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction."
Politics
"When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments."
Endurance
"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment."
Politics
"Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions."
Politics
"The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world."
Positive
"An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes."
Wisdom
"...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same."
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