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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."- George Santayana (1863-1952)
"History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot."- Mark Twain
"Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance but the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms: the one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it." (Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, 1791-1792)
"Toleration is a concession; religious liberty is a right." John M. Swomley, Religious Liberty and the Secular State: The Constitutional Context, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1987
"It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."- Thomas Jefferson
“Life is not what it's supposed to be. Its what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” -Virginia Satir
"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion." "The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."- Lord Acton