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“I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.”

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Author:James A. Garfield

“It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.”

Wisdom Politics Economy Economic Produce Errors Productions Limitation Liberalism

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.”

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Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.”

“To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him.”

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Author:Jean-Baptiste Say

“I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.”

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Author:Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”

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Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”

“For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli