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“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.”

People Has Beens Political Politics Liberty Nice Fairs Controversy Very Nice Involving Forged Nice People Summary

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood - human blood.”

Humans Has Beens Liberty Blood

Author:J. Reuben Clark

“Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.”

Source: Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession

“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.”

“The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.”

Persons Has Beens Used Left Liberty Private Life No Hope Discord Mischievous

Author:Tacitus

“It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.”

Humans May Has Beens Stills Liberty Rights One Thing Succeed Human Rights Alternatives Lap Civil Liberties

Book:A fanfare for Prometheus

Source: A fanfare for Prometheus