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“How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?”

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Author:John Stuart Mill

“The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.”

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Author:Oliver Ellsworth

“I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.”

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Author:Laurance Rockefeller

“Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.”

“Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion.”

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Author:Ellery Sedgwick

“Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world.”

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Author:Tom Watson

“The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.”

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Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series