“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

“They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, (1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General. Source Reference…

“In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.” Charles-Louis de Secondat, (1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu. Source: “The Spirit of Laws” (1748). Source Reference Charles-Louis…

“Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there…

“Whenever ‘A’ attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon ‘B’, ‘A’ is most likely a scoundrel.” H. L. Mencken, (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic. Source Reference H. L. Mencken Quote

“Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.” Herman Hesse, (1877-1962). Source: Reflections, 1974. Source Reference Herman Hesse Quote

“Humanity’s most valuable assets have been the non-conformists. Were it not for the non-conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world…

“There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.” Thomas Babington Macaulay, (1800-1859)…

“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”…

“There never was an idea stated that woke men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., (1841-1935) US Supreme Court Justice, also known as “The Great Dissenter.” Source: Over the Teacups, 1891….

“One of the ironies, as some have observed, is that the secular project has itself become a religion, pursued with religious fervor. It is taking on all the trappings of a religion – including inquisitions and excommunication.  Those who defy…

“The whole point of the liberal revolution that gave rise to the 1960’s was to free us from somebody else’s dogma, but now the same people…are striving to impose on others a secularized religion…disguising it behind innocuous labels like ‘diversity…