We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

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Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

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Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago.

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The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

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We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

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The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

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It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

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The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

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The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

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When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

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