Henry Steele Commager Quotes on Society

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4. 'Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.'

5. 'Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.'

6. 'The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.'

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