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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a read more
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases read more
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest read more
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights read more
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice.
To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice.
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares read more
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.