Quote by Eliot Spitzer
When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation prem

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. – Eliot Spitzer

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I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out. – Eliot Spitzer

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Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs. – Eliot Spitzer

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I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in. – Eliot Spitzer

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Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth. – Thomas Huxley

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I dont believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom. – Alan Dershowitz

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I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom. – Rose Wilder Lane

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That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation. – Anish Kapoor

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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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