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Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

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Alan Barth

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

Checks, Church, Government, Liberty, Society, State
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Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Atheism, Criticism, Dangerous, Liberty, Silencing, Thought

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

Assassin, Assault, Character, Country, Free, Hero

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Criticism, Delusion, Dissent, Indispensable

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

Loyalty, Miscellaneous, Depends, Disloyalty, Free

News is only the first rough draft of history.

Draft, Firsts, History, News, Rough Drafts
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