“I know no country in which there is so little true independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Do not be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Every one desires happiness, but to secure it he must know what happiness is.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labours in vain, and how shall we do that for others which we are seldom able to do for ourselves?”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Across the sea of space the stars are other suns.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have to mine.”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“It is no use to take an action to which the masses are opposed, for it will then be impossible to enforce.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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