“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.” PeopleHas BeensPoliticalPoliticsLibertyNiceFairsControversyVery NiceInvolvingForgedNice PeopleSummary Author:Felix Frankfurter
“The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.” PeopleIfsLittlesEnoughPlayAmericaPoliticsWishCommonKnownLibertyEconomyTakenRightsBloodHonestyOffersMassFairsProofCommon SenseLiberalismExpensesNow And ThenThreateningTempestSecuredFair Play Book:Correspondence Source: Correspondence
“It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.” MenSpiritLibertyLandFairsArmyTyrannyPrizeHeritagePreservationRelianceDefenceFrowningGallantResumption Author:Abraham Lincoln
“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our Liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good.” IfsShouldMayEndsGovernmentChoicesNationsLosesPartyLibertyDangerFairsVoteSightIndependentElectionMajorityCorruptionDeterminedPurityVotingVirtuousUnfaithfulArtifice Author:John Adams
“We took a fair bit of liberty with the story, but the basic premise of the film ["Selling Isobel" ] - a girl is kidnapped on the streets of a city and held captive for three days and two nights while various men show up and exploit her - is the exact truth.” MenTwoStoriesShowsFilmNightGirlThreeBitsCitiesLibertyStreetsFairsVariousSellingExploitsPremisesCaptivesKidnapped Author:Rudolf Buitendach
“For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.” YearsLittlesStillsLibertyEconomicHundredFairsEconomicsFoulAvaricePrecautionUsuryAvarice Greed Book:Essays in persuasion Source: Essays in persuasion