"When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions." -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American writer, journalist, and political commentator Source: The Indispensable Opposition, 1939 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Walter.Lippmann.Quote.A7A4
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Source: Journal, February 3, 1860
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"The dissenter is every human being at those times of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself." -Archibald Macleish (1892-1982) Poet, playwright, Librarian of Congress, & Assistant Secretary of State under Franklin Roosevelt Source: 4 December 1937
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