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[W]hether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

— Walter Lippmann A Preface to Morals (1929)

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You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.

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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

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The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolate persons.

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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

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