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There Is Something Frightful In The Way In Which Not Only Characteristic Qualities, But Particular Manifestations Of Them, Are Repeated From Generation To Generation.

As For The Excellent Little Wretches Who Grow Up In What They Are Taught, With Never A Scruple Or A Query, ... They Signify Nothing In The Intellectual Life Of The Race.

If There Is Any Principle Of The Constitution That More Imperatively Calls For Attachment Than Any Other It Is The Principle Of Free Thought, Not Free Thought For Those Who Agree With Us But Freedom For The Thought That We Hate.

The Ultimate Good Desired Is Better Reached By Free Trade In Ideas [and] The Best Test Of Truth Is The Power Of The Thought To Get Itself Accepted In The Competition Of The Market.

No Generalization Is Wholly True—not Even This One.