“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment … inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is…

“Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.” Phyllis McGinley, (1905-1978) Source: 1954. Source Reference Phyllis McGinley Quote

“Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.” Isabel Paterson,…

“Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.” Frances Wright, (1795-1852). Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, abolitionist, and social reformer. Source: Lecture, 1829
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“Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.” James Madison, (1751-1836), Father of the US Constitution and the 4th US President.
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“How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to…

“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” George Orwell, [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author.  Source Reference George Orwell Quote

“The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of…

“Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others.” Doris Lessing, (1919-2013) British author. Source: Sunday Times, 10 May 1992. Source Reference Doris Lessing Quote

“As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not…

“Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one…

“The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.” Thomas I. Emerson, (1907-1991) Lines Professor of Law, Yale University, author. Source: Law and Contemporary Problems (1955). Source Reference Thomas I. Emerson Quote