Liberty And Equality

We hold these truths

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The people never give

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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke

Your national greatness, swelling

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Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation … Read more

Coincident with the right

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Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any … Read more

I have always considered

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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their objects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for … Read more

Equality, rightly understood as

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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Barry Goldwater