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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All mankind love a lover.
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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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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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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Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.
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Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment.
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I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
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We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.
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We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken.
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It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
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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.
