Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the People, who have... a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers. There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free 'government' ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among people.
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
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Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
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'I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.'
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'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'
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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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