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2021 April 09
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"I believe the State exists for the development of individual lives,
not individuals for the development of the state." |
"It is, therefore, a fact of law and of practical necessity that
individuals are responsible for their own personal safety, and
that of their loved ones. Police protection must be recognized
for what it is: only an auxiliary general deterrent." |
"Pity the poor opponents of the right to keep and bear arms! They must distrust just everybody except criminals and except the tyrant to whom they concede the armed monopoly of their protection." |
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2021 April 08
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"Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source -- from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives." |
"The only part of the conduct of anyone for which
he is amenable to society is that which concerns others.
In the part which merely concerns himself,
his independence is, of right, absolute.
Over himself, over his own body and mind,
the individual is sovereign." |
"Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose
and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer,
to join with others in religious associations to express these beliefs,
and to incur no civil disabilities because of his choice..." |
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2021 April 07
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"They make a rout about universal liberty,
without considering that all that is to be valued,
or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty." |
"Let us forget such words,
and all they mean,
as Hatred, Bitterness and Rancor,
Greed, Intolerance, Bigotry.
Let us renew our faith
and pledge to Man,
his right to be Himself,
and free." |
"There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature
and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right
to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make
themselves so, if they please." |
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2021 April 06
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"The truth that makes men free is for the most part
the truth which men prefer not to hear." |
"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness." |
"He is the freeman whom the truth makes free." |
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2021 April 05
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"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end.
It is the highest political end." |
"Liberty is from God;
liberties, from the devil." |
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph,
is for good men to do nothing." |
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