So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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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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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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

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

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

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Dare to think for yourself.

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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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