“Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?” Jean-Baptiste Say, (1767-1832) French economist, businessman. Source: A Treatise on Political Economy, 1803. Source Reference Jean-Baptiste Say Quote

“The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.” James Russell Lowell, (1819-1891) American author and diplomatist. Source Reference James Russell Lowell Quote

“Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms.  They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.” Charles T. Sprading, (1871-1959) Libertarian activist, writer. Source: Freedom and its…

“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story,…

“…As a deeply religious person, it’s also unChristian to me.” Chelsea Clinton, in a Sirius interview, speaking about banning abortion. Source Reference Chelsea Clinton: ‘As a Deeply Religious Person,’ Banning Abortions ‘Is UnChristian to Me’

“No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.” Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884)…

“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…