“We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.” WorldForceCitiesLibertyPowerMilitaryArmyPoliceInternationalScalesMadmenGreat CitiesRobbingMilitary PowerPolice Force Author:Billy Graham
“The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.” WorldHumansCareReligionBeliefNaturalReligiousHuman BeingsLibertyMankindConscienceWeightToleranceScalesIndifferenceDislikeDeniedIntoleranceQuarrelsRealisedDisturbedTheologicalReligious FreedomReligious BeliefGreat WritersReligious Liberty Book:On Liberty: Mill's Works Source: On Liberty: Mill's Works
“The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.” HumansImportantCharacterAbleLibertyRightsAtheismCrimeRevolutionHuman RightsPositive AtheismScalesWelfareIndifferentStainsIngratitudePaine Author:James Monroe
“Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness.” HumansGovernmentLibertyMoralSupportVirtueHonorEqualSacredExcellenceScalesFormerProductiveLatterPretensionHuman HappinessMoral Excellence Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.” HumansLawLibertyRightsWalkingInternationalHuman RightsScalesObligationAdministrationConventionsAssaultRule Of LawTreatiesCivil LibertiesWalking AwayProtocol Author:Bianca Jagger