“To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.” SpiritHeavenChurchSupportRightsYield Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
“In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same; no recognition of rights - only murder in one form or another.” MenDoeShowsFormHeavenCompassionRightsBrotherLowsRedMurderCharityNotionRecognitionBeastTreatmentHuntersInnateLambsShepherdsWild AnimalAnimalism Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” MenGodChristianIndividualHeavenSocialChristianityRightsDutyOughtTyrannyResistanceDependenceResistingOur Founding FathersFounding Fathers ChristianSteadfastUs Founding FathersChristianity From Founding FathersChristian PatrioticDependence On God Author:John Hancock
“It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State, - ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios, - burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.” MenWorldMindLongIdeasStatesAmericaHeavenNationsPrinciplesFateRightsOughtAuthorityResponsibleTitlesBreastsAbandonLatinThinkerLockedSolitaryDestinedConqueror Author:Lord Acton
“I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.” MenMindMayDoeLightHeavenRightsMastersRevolutionIntellectualAngelPassiveHereditaryJealouslyMind Free Book:The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ... Source: The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...