ThursdayNov 13, 2025
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.
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.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men....
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
Everything secret degenerates; nothing is safe that does not bear discussion and publicity.
Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the good.
Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty but no welcome. Below was a welcoming planet. There, contained in the thin, moving, incredibly fragile shell of the biosphere is everything that is dear to you, all the human drama and comedy. That's where life is; that's where all the good stuff is.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity.
Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility.
Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.
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