"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
-Walter Lippmann
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"Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.“
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"There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation."
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"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
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"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism."
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"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
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"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
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"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
-Roald Dahl
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"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
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"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
-Charles Lindbergh
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