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“It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.”

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.”

Men States Liberty Concern Aim Socialism Streams Anarchy Exploitation Socialist Components Anarchism Anarchist Haste Abolish Synonym

Book:Anarchism; from theory to practice

Source: Anarchism; from theory to practice

“The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.”

Ifs Would Be Liberty Poverty Capable England Revolutionary Destroying Abolish Bloodshed Revolutionary Change

Book:The English People: With 8 Plates in Colour and 17 Illus. in Black and White

Source: The English People: With 8 Plates in Colour and 17 Illus. in Black and White

“The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.”

Law Political Race Liberty Moral Class Ideals Obligation Realization Reign Abolish Discharge Moral Obligation

Author:Lord Acton

“Where there is no law there is no freedom.”

Law Freedom Liberty Capable Abolish

Book:Two treatises of government

Source: Two treatises of government

“When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression ... it is a ... sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government, and create another in its stead.”

People Hands Government Evil Liberty Protect Instruments Sacred Property Obligation Oppression Rulers Posterity Abolish

Author:Sam Houston

“I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the Bill of Rights, free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, privacy, if we repeal Obamacare, abolish the IRS, if we get Washington out of the way of job creators, I think we can transform this country.”

“A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”

Ifs Humans God Would Be Humanity Liberty Conditions Lovers Absolutes Admire Phrases Jealous Reverse Abolish

Book:God and the State

Source: God and the State