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In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only read more
In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.
Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of read more
Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious.
Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious.
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical read more
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are read more
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.
Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.