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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.
If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.
Without a country, I am not a man.
Without a country, I am not a man.
That government is best which governs least.
That government is best which governs least.
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and read more
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This read more
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing. - The Friends of Voltaire.
...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and read more
Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is read more
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
