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[Quote No.35431] Need Area: Friends > General
"Make men [and women] wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
" - William Godwin
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[Quote No.35433] Need Area: Friends > General
"With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.
" - Edison Haines
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[Quote No.35434] Need Area: Friends > General
"Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost." - Robert A. Heinlein
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[Quote No.35435] Need Area: Friends > General
"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity." - Eric Hoffer
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[Quote No.35436] Need Area: Friends > General
"Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men [and women].
" - Herbert Hoover
US President
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[Quote No.35437] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defence and Martial Arts:] Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible." - Hubert H. Humphrey
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[Quote No.35438] Need Area: Friends > General
"None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it....[However] The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously [that is determined by the reasonableness of what is said]." - Hubert H. Humphrey
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[Quote No.35439] Need Area: Friends > General
"I believe the State exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of the state." - Julian Huxley
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[Quote No.35440] Need Area: Friends > General
"The first thing to learn in intercourse with others [social life] is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours." - William James
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[Quote No.35441] Need Area: Friends > General
"Whenever the people are well informed [with the truth], they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.35442] Need Area: Friends > General
"By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.35443] Need Area: Friends > General
"[On censorship:] I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offence against religion; that a question about the sale of a book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Is this then our freedom of religion? and are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule for what we are to read, and what we must believe? It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.35444] Need Area: Friends > General
"Bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.35445] Need Area: Friends > General
"No free man [or woman] shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.35446] Need Area: Friends > General
"[On censorship:] The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.35447] Need Area: Friends > General
"A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should to rest on inference." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.35449] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom and individualism:] At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man [or woman]...is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western [or eastern] society." - Robert F. Kennedy
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[Quote No.35450] Need Area: Friends > General
"We must forever conduct our struggle [for equal human rights] on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He, like Gandhi, believed in the power of non-violent resistence to oppression, inequality and injustice.
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[Quote No.35451] Need Area: Friends > General
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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[Quote No.35452] Need Area: Friends > General
"Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected 'radicals' without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail....we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity..." - Robert M. Lafollette, Sr.
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[Quote No.35453] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defence and Martial Arts:] To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." - Richard Henry Lee
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[Quote No.35454] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects - military, political, economic, and what not. But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden - that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time." - C. S. Lewis
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[Quote No.35455] Need Area: Friends > General
"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution." - Abraham Lincoln
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[Quote No.35457] Need Area: Friends > General
"[On censorship:] A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society." - Walter Lippmann
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[Quote No.35458] Need Area: Friends > General
"[On censorship:] We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say." - Walter Lippmann
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[Quote No.35459] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community [for example a representational democratic government] may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits." - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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[Quote No.35460] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man [or a woman] is not a man [or a woman] but a member, an instrument, a thing." - Archibald MacLeish
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[Quote No.35461] Need Area: Friends > General
"We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, that religion, or the duty we owe our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right." - James Madison
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[Quote No.35462] Need Area: Friends > General
"Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish." - Neil A. McDonald
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[Quote No.35463] Need Area: Friends > General
"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.
" - George McGovern
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[Quote No.35464] Need Area: Friends > General
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." - John Stuart Mill
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[Quote No.35465] Need Area: Friends > General
"Here the great [political] art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work." - John Milton
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[Quote No.35466] Need Area: Friends > General
"Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny." - James Monroe
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[Quote No.35467] Need Area: Friends > General
"The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic." - Norval Morris
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[Quote No.35468] Need Area: Friends > General
"Fascism [a form of statism] should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini
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[Quote No.35469] Need Area: Friends > General
"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
" - Claude Pepper
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[Quote No.35470] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is not my intention to do away with government. It is, rather, to make it work -- work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government. ... We shall reflect the compassion that is so much a part of your makeup. How can we love our country and not love our countrymen, and loving them, not reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they are sick, and provide opportunities to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?" - Ronald Reagan
Republican and US President
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[Quote No.35471] Need Area: Friends > General
"To be able to think freely [which is so important to individual and human development], a man [or woman] must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes [because his or her freedom of speech is sacrosanct].
" - Ernest Renan
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[Quote No.35472] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz
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[Quote No.35473] Need Area: Friends > General
"Whether or not legislation is truly moral is often a question of who has the power to define morality.
" - Jerome H. Skolnick
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[Quote No.35475] Need Area: Friends > General
"No one is fit to be trusted with [absolute] power. ... No one. ... Any man who has lived at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of. ... And if he does know it, he knows also that neither he nor any [single] man [whether judge, politician, business-person, soldier, etc] ought to be allowed to decide a single human fate [and that the best chance for a decision to be fair is that it be decided by as diverse a group of people as possible informed by time-tested ethical principles, which is why jury trials are considered the fairest method in an imperfect legal system of judgement and punishment]." - C. P. Snow
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[Quote No.35478] Need Area: Friends > General
"If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we [US] should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them." - Lysander Spooner
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[Quote No.35479] Need Area: Friends > General
"[US] Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the people choose that they be." - Supreme Court of the United States
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[Quote No.35481] Need Area: Friends > General
"Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign." - Mother Teresa
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[Quote No.35482] Need Area: Friends > General
"America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
" - Clarence Thomas
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[Quote No.35483] Need Area: Friends > General
"There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him [or her] accordingly." - Henry David Thoreau
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[Quote No.35484] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The US Constitution's Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government." - Judge Lawrence Tribe
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[Quote No.35485] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime." - Richard A. Viguerie
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[Quote No.35486] Need Area: Friends > General
"I may not agree with what you say, but to the death I will defend your right to say it." - Voltaire
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[Quote No.35487] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster." - Voltaire
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