No culture in human history ever suffered because its people became too reasonable or too desirous of having evidence in defense of their core beliefs.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

No opinion should be disdained and scorned.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

No atrocity was ever committed because people were being too reasonable, too skeptical, or too independently minded.

There's no such thing as being too respectful of other people's traditions.

Nobody...ought to be punished for religious opinions.

If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us.

No community, rich or poor, urban or suburban, black or white, should be made into a sacrifice zone or dumping ground.

No man shall be blamed in the maintenance of his own religion.

No country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.