“You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.”
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In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
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It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
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The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
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Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
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The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
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