Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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