“Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.” Napoleon Bonaparte, (1769-1821) French emperor, Source: Political Aphorisms (1848). Source Reference Napoleon Bonaparte Quote

“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.” F. Lee Bailey, famous trial attorney. Source: Newsweek, 17 April 1967. Source Reference F. Lee Bailey Quote

“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,…

“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) American author of children’s books and poetry. Pulitzer prize 1961, 1954. Source Reference Phyllis McGinley Quote

“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