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“The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A day will come when they will see that they are impoverished under the pretext of being enriched; that, when they are robbed of their souls and of God, both their titles to liberty are stolen from them.”

People Soul Liberty Atheism Changed Titles Flash Stolen Indignation Pretext Hog

Book:Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People

Source: Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People

“We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.”

World Liberty Fashion This World Changed Thousand

Book:The divine comedy, tr. by H.W. Longfellow

Source: The divine comedy, tr. by H.W. Longfellow

“Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties.”

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953

“Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Believe Character Liberty Doubt Changed Fit Mountain

Author:Mehmed the Conqueror

“While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part of the Nation's fundamental law in 1791, what the Framers understood then remains true today - that the task of combating crime and convicting the guilty will in every era seem of such critical and pressing concern that we may be lured by the temptations of expediency into forsaking our commitment to protecting individual liberty and privacy.”

“Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions of human rights. Because the United States has changed its standards it is undermining civil liberties elsewhere.”

Humans Has Beens Country States United Liberty United States Records Rights Changed Standards Unions Human Rights Former Soviet Elsewhere Soviet Union Civil Liberties Undermining Erosion

Author:Mary Robinson