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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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