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“Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority.”

Source: Alexander Hamilton: Lapham's Quarterly - Special Issue

“If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.”

Source: Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)

“Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.”

“I don't bother writing about Fox News. It is too easy. What I talk about are the liberal intellectuals, the ones who portray themselves and perceive themselves as challenging power, as courageous, as standing up for truth and justice. They are basically the guardians of the faith. They set the limits. They tell us how far we can go. They say, 'Look how courageous I am.' But do not go one millimeter beyond that. At least for the educated sectors, they are the most dangerous in supporting power.”

Writing Looks Easy Challenges Justice Dangerous Limits News Standing Educated Bother Perceive Courageous Foxes Guardian Fox News Truth And Justice

Book:Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force

Source: Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force

“The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.”

Men World Inspiration Spirit Justice Gone Fine Limits Stalking Reminding Adventurer Lineage

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.”

Children Justice Limits Boldness Lofty Pedestal Rashness

Author:Sophocles

“It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is so far from all that! Who has put those visions into our heads? The soul that knows so much more than what it sees; the soul that comes from far and goes far, and to whom limits make no difference!”

Knows Ideas Soul Seems Differences Justice Vision Limits Eternity Enormous Purity

Author:Elisabeth of Wied

“The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.”

“The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions, that this world is the arena that God created for man, half beast and half angel; to prove that he could be a moral being...man was given dominion over nature, but he was commanded to behave towards the rest of creation with justice and compassion. Man lives, always, in tension between his power and the limits set by his conscience.”

Men World Given Justice Half Compassion Moral Creation This World Prove Limits Conscience Angel Environmental Gods Will Versions Behave Beast Tension Judaism Arena Stewardship Dominion

Author:Arthur Hertzberg

“The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.”

Men Spirit Interest Lines Justice Limits Advantage Boundaries Symbols Fence Taking Advantage

Book:The Nature and Destiny of Man: Human destiny

Source: The Nature and Destiny of Man: Human destiny

“I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things happen. And she particularly learned that she could not, just because she was nominally in charge, she could not change people's hearts and minds; that a very long process of education would result before race was on the national agenda. And it really did move her into the racial justice arena with both feet. She came out fighting.”

People Thinking Mind Heart Long Happens Moving Fighting Process Justice Results Race Feet Influence Limits Things Happen Agendas Heart And Mind Arena Eleanor Racial Justice

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook