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“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.”

Men Needs Light Growth Liberty Plant Instinct Intuition Genuine Expansion

Book:Mixed Essays: Irish Essays and Others

Source: Mixed Essays: Irish Essays and Others

“True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us”

Liberty Ought Please Genuine True Freedom

Book:The Gospel According to John

Source: The Gospel According to John

“Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.”

Should Firsts Liberty Genuine Nurture

Author:Mustafa Akyol

“It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago. If she is still to count in the world--and if she does not intend to, she may as well perish--she must be seen by her own citizens and by all men as an ever-flowing source of liberty. There must not be a single genuine lover of freedom in the whole world who can have a valid reason for hating France.”

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.”

May Has Beens Causes Liberty Genuine Bloody Zeal Fanatics Fanaticism Heathen

Author:Thaddeus Stevens