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Daniel Webster:

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

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Helen Hayes, in the voice of Jane Marple:

I’m afraid that, when an idealist becomes a fanatic, the line between right and wrong becomes a blur.

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V. S. Naipaul:

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

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Saul Alinsky:

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

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Erich Fried:

Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts.

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Kirk Douglas:

I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.

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Horace Walpole:

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

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Clarence Darrow:

Man does not live by truth, but by the illusions that his brain conceives.

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Margaret Drabble:

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

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Margot Fonteyn:

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

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Grover Cleveland:

Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government; but the communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil, which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wild disorder the citadel of rule.

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Henri Matisse:

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

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Diana Wynne Jones:

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people’s lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.

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Erich Fromm:

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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John Hersey:

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it’s been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

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Bertrand Russell:

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

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Pindar:

War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach.

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William Jennings Bryan:

No government can long endure unless its citizens are willing to make some sacrifice for its existence.

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Bruce Nozick, in the voice of Pete Valera:

A person can live with anything if they don’t think about it too much.

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Henry Hawkins:

Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand.

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