Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

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Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

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We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

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We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...

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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

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Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

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