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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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