“For, if liberty and equality, as some persons suppose, are chiefly to be found in a democracy, they will be attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.” “He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must either be a beast or a god.” “Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” “Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.” Latin phrase of unknown authorship motto of Algernon Sydney and James Otis “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” “Democracy is a slow process of stumbling to the right decision instead of going straight forward to the wrong one.” “It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” “No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.” “If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.”
“If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled.” “Not only every juror's right but his Duty … to find the Verdict according to his own best Understanding, Judgment and Conscience, tho in Direct opposition to the Direction of the Court.” John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions, 1787 “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.” My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right … and a desire to know.” “The Spirit that prevails among Men of all degrees, all ages and sexes is the Spirit of Liberty.” “The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern.
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