“It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Democracy and Other Addresses (1886)
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“In truth, men speak too much of danger.”
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