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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.

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Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

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Study the past if you would define the future.

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Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases.

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The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

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There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

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Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

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All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

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