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“No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.”

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Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips was a distinguished American lawyer, abolitionist, and orator. Born on November 29, 1811, he was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement and a vocal opponent of slavery. Known for his eloquent speeches and advocacy for civil rights, Phillips passed away on February 2, 1884. more

“The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.”

“[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.”

People Freedom Liberty Rights Invasion Manly Firmness

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.”

Long Country Matter Law Choices Freedom Liberty Citizens Tolerance Civil Liberties

Book:Einstein on Peace

Source: Einstein on Peace

“Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.”

People Thinking Want Freedom Liberty Capable

Author:Oswald Spengler

“The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.”

Firsts Guitar Buying Guts Strings Grandparent

Author:Eric Clapton

“As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.”

Thinking Government Freedom Levels Liberty Watches Limits Empathy Prosperity Favors Fats Lazy Apathy Indifferent Largesse

Author:Lyn Nofziger

“One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.”

Believe Important Country Belief Freedom Liberty Growing Security Bother

Author:Lyn Nofziger

“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”

Source: Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers

“To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”

Political Politics Freedom Liberty Dangerous Judging Ultimate Doctrine Despotism Property Rights Oligarchy Arbiter Judicial Branch Judicial Review

Book:Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson

“When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state”

People Made States Body Hands Lost Freedom Liberty Rights Dangerous Office Valuable Representatives Continuing Constituents Founding Fathers Democracy

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

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