They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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Anand Thakur
They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
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A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.
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Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
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Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history.
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A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
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Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.
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Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?
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A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
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Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
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I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen.
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