In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.