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You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time. Zechariah Chafee, Jr.	added by Normando 7 days ago
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum. Samuel Adams	added by Normando 7 days ago
Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join groups he prefers. Justice William O. Douglas	added by Normando 7 days ago
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. Fyodor Dostoyevsky	added by Normando 7 days ago
Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who are good for nothing. Anacharsis	added by Normando 7 days ago
Why do men fight who were born to be brothers? James Longstreet	added by Normando 7 days ago
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? Thomas Babington Macaulay	added by Normando 7 days ago
For your own good' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. Janet Frame	added by Normando 7 days ago
If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage. Confucius	added by Normando 7 days ago
I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself. John Adams	added by Normando 7 days ago
Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. Benjamin Franklin	added by Normando 8 days ago
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. Andre Maurois	added by Normando 8 days ago
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai E. Stevenson II	added by Normando 8 days ago
Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Thomas Paine	added by Normando 8 days ago
Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost. Robert A. Heinlein	added by Normando 8 days ago
Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently insiders know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state. John Scharr	added by Normando 8 days ago
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. William Ellery Channing	added by Normando 8 days ago
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by Normando 8 days ago
You know, being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you license to call people anti-Semitic. Alan Dershowitz	added by Normando 8 days ago
There are human beings in this world who are soft enough to feel every terrible thing that happens so deeply. And are still brave enough to remain constant and suffer for those who need them the most. Even the stars blink in awe of the gleam of their souls. Nikita Gill	added by JokerGem 8 days ago
Do not disregard or hate the maps on your skin and soul. These scars have never diminished your worth, they are the stories that make you whole. Nikita Gill	added by JokerGem 8 days ago
To be here Is a moment in which that you share with me is a moment they share with me is that perseverance which is that struggle that has been overcometh Matthew Raymond Dalton	added by MatthewRaymondDalton 9 days ago
Hone Thyselves Singular Matthew Raymond Dalton	added by MatthewRaymondDalton 9 days ago
we do not pick and choose our wrongs nor our brothers Matthew Raymond Dalton	added by MatthewRaymondDalton 9 days ago

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