
1860s, Letter to Horace Greeley (1862)
Nous ne trouvons guère de gens de bon sens, que ceux qui sont de notre avis.
Maxim 347. Compare: "'That was excellently observed,' say I when I read a passage in another where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then I pronounce him to be mistaken." Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Nous ne trouvons guère de gens de bon sens, que ceux qui sont de notre avis.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
1860s, Letter to Horace Greeley (1862)
Emancipation: A Romance of the Times to Come (1971)
2011, Tucson Memorial Address (January 2011)
United States v. Schwimmer, 279 U.S. 644 (1929) (Holmes, J., dissenting).
1920s
Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 13, "The Battles" (p. 95)
He understood that ideas cannot be contained by prison walls, or extinguished by a sniper’s bullet. He turned his trial into an indictment of apartheid because of his eloquence and his passion, but also because of his training as an advocate. He used decades in prison to sharpen his arguments, but also to spread his thirst for knowledge to others in the movement. And he learned the language and the customs of his oppressor so that one day he might better convey to them how their own freedom depend upon his.
2013, Eulogy of Nelson Mandela (December 2013)
1900s, A Free Man's Worship (1903)