"How can my muse want subject to invent,
While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse
Thine own sweet argument, too excellent
For every vulgar paper to rehearse?" — Shakespeare, Sonnet 38
"To sum up the matter, the principle that no man is to be declared guilty on his own admission is a divine decree." — Book of Judges, The Bible
"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence."
— "Mending Wall," Robert Frost
"What is honored in a country will be cultivated there." THE REPUBLIC, Plato
"It is by the goodness of God that, in our country, we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." — Mark Twain
"All men recognize the right of revolution: that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable." — AN ESSAY ON CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, H. D. Thoreau
"But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed."
— THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE, Shakespeare
"He is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention." — THE WEALTH OF NATIONS, Adam Smith
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