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“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.”

Source: The Jews

“Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.”

People Age Knowledge Deserve Wit All Time Contempt Evident Persecution Censure Impediments

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively try to silence you are the ones who do not respect the liberties and rights of the individual. Those people deserve our contempt, and when you draw them out of the shadows by exercising your civil right to freedom of speech, they will expose themselves for what they truly are.”

People Trying Mind Politics Individual Silence Known Liberty Opinion Rights Exercise Speech Draws Shadow Deserve Silent Contempt Freedom Of Speech Retribution Do Not Fear

Author:Derek R. Audette

“No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.”

Men Fall Deserve Contempt

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols 11-13: Debates in Parliament

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols 11-13: Debates in Parliament

“No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.”

Politics Church Deserve Contempt Zeitgeist

Author:Robert Bork

“No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought. ...If therefore a people will not be free; if they have not virtue enough to maintain their liberty against a presumptuous invader, they deserve no pity, and are to be treated with contempt and ignominy.”

People Ifs Enough Might Liberty Virtue Ought Truth Is Deserve Slavery Heavy Treated Pity Contempt Yoke Invaders Presumptuous Ignominy

Author:Samuel Adams