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Woodrow Wilson Politician
Opinion

"What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Opinion

"In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion."

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Socrates Philosopher
Opinion

"If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
Opinion

"Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt."

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Opinion

"You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out."

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James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist
Opinion

"This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion."

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