“The less government we have the better — the fewer laws and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, and poet. Source Reference Ralph Waldo…

“Comrades!  We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.” Nikita Khrushchev, (1894-1971) Premier of the Soviet Union. Source: addressing the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, 2-25-56. Source Reference Nikita Khrushchev Quote

“The antipode of individualism is collectivism, which subordinates the individual to the group – be it the ‘community,’ the tribe, the race, the proletariat, etc. A person’s moral worth is judged by how much he sacrifices himself to the group….

“A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment … is not, strictly speaking, a…

“All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.” Edmund Burke, (1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker. Source Reference Edmund Burke Quote

“The First Amendment says nothing about a right not to be offended. The risk of finding someone else’s speech offensive is the price each of us pays for our own free speech. Free people don’t run to court – or to the principal — when…

“Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.” John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist. Source: On Liberty, 1859. Source Reference John Stuart…

“Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.” William O. Douglas, (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: An Almanac of Liberty, 1954. Source Reference William O….

“The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.” Friedrich Durrenmatt, (1921-1990). Source: About Tolerance, 1977. Source Reference Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882). Source: Essays, 1841
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“Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense – the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled…

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” Theodore Roosevelt, (1858-1919) 26th US President
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