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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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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
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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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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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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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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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