"The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them."

-- Henry Steele Commager

#Errors Quotes #Mind Quotes #Freedom Of Speech Quotes

“We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.”
“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.”
“He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.”

Source : François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.9, Gallic Books
“The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.”
“On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous.”

Source : 2 page advertisement sponsored by Dresser Industries in the "Wall Street Journal", July 31, 1979.
“Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a Tory prime minister resigned, Britain's voted to leave the European Union, there are massive political issues to be addressed, is it really a good idea to start a big debate in the Labour Party when I was elected less than a year ago with a very large mandate not from MPs, I fully concede and understand that, but from the party members as a whole.”
“Deception is the knowledge of kings.”

Source : "Maxims". "Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu", 1964.
“I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like "It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years, so I was like "OK, I'll just be a lawyer."”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com

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