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“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

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Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.”

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Author:Michael Kimmelman

“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”

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Book:Gandhigrams

Source: Gandhigrams

“In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on.”

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Author:Edward Kennedy

“A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”

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Author:John Milton

“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”

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Book:The Select Works of William Penn....

Source: The Select Works of William Penn....

“The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.”

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Author:Laurens van der Post

“Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.”

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Author:Richard von Weizsaecker

“For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.”

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Book:Faces in the water

Source: Faces in the water

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Source: Churchill By Himself

“A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.”

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Book:Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

“It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.”

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Author:Vincenzo Galilei