It is fair to judge peoples ...

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.
It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.
 Clarence Day

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.
 Clarence Day
A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.
 Clarence Day
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.
 Clarence Day
Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
 Clarence Day