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"I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough."
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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."
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"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society."

"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."

"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."

"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."

"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."

"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."

"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."
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