Ezra Stiles Quotes
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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All mankind love a lover.
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!
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Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
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Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
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Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.
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Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.
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Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.
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The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
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In the second half we upped the tempo, scored four and could have got more.
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I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.
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The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
