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If a juror accepts as the law that which the judge states then that juror has accepted the exercise of absolute authority of a government employee and has surrendered a power and a right that once was the citizen's safeguard of liberty.

— George Bancroft The History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States (1882)

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The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

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Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

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The progress of man consists in this, that he himself arrives at the perception of truth.

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