That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
BERGEN EVANSWe may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
More Bergen Evans Quotes
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We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
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Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.
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Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
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For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
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For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
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There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
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An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.
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Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one’s vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.
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Authors are magpies, echoing each other’s words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.
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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
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A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement.
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Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
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