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2026 May 27
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"Nations crumble from within when the citizenry
asks of government those things which
the citizenry might better provide for itself. ...
[I] hope we have once again reminded people that
man is not free unless government is limited.
There's a clear cause and effect here that
is as neat and predictable as a law of physics:
As government expands, liberty contracts." |
"All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers
round the external trappings of elevated office.
To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected
from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity." |
"Many now believe that with the rise of the totalitarian State the world has entered upon a new era of barbarism. It has not. The totalitarian State is only the State; the kind of thing it does is only what the State has always done with unfailing regularity, if it had the power to do it, wherever and whenever its own aggrandizement made that kind of thing expedient. Give any State like power hereafter, and put it in like circumstances, and it will do precisely the same kind of thing. The State will unfailingly aggrandize itself, if only it has the power, first at the expense of its own citizens, and then at the expense of anyone else in sight. It has always done so, and always will." |
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2026 May 26
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"The essence of Government is power;
and power, lodged as it must be in human hands,
will ever be liable to abuse." |
"Whilst we assert a freedom
to embrace, to profess, and to observe
the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin,
we cannot deny an equal freedom to choose
minds who have not yet yielded
to the evidence which has convinced us." |
"[In a republic] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions,
but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places." |
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2026 May 25
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"The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind….Attitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning…" |
"Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one’s own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results." |
"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil
of discussion, dissent and debate." |
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