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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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 mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
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I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.
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Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.
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In my eyes, concepts of theology have only as much value as they are able to interpret experience. It seems to me that we have long reached the point where we theologians only talk to ourselves and debate with our own history of concepts.
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To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!
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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.
