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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
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"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act."
Politics
"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money."
Man
"The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion."
Religion
"We can afford no liberties with liberty itself."
Liberty
"The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now."
Now
"It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government."
Government
"When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions."
Quality
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
Government
"To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds."
Patriotism
"The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis."
Being
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