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“'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'”
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“The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
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“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”
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“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”
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“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”
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“Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.”
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“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.”
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“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
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“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
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“Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.”
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