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• Most people prefer certainty to truth.
• The problems of modern society have led many people to complai
  'We live in terrible times.' Yet, given the choice, no one today would prefer to live in any other time....
• I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to ac
  and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him....
• You would rather be admired than liked, although you would prefer both.
• Indeed, to quarantine a person with AIDS or the AIDS virus does entail a loss, in the short run, of human freedom.
  Agreed. But the idea of human freedom isn't now, and never has been, absolute....
• I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to ac
  and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote--where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference--and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him....
• Mathematicians practice absolute freedom. -- Henry Adam
• As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.
  The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism....