Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Liberty Quotes


"The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent." -Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908) American scholar
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Charles.Norton.Quote.3A52

"The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it." -- Dr. Joseph Mengele (1911- 979) Nazi German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz- Birkenau, known for performing grisly human experiments on camp inmates, including children, for which Mengele was called the "Angel of Death" (German: Todesengel)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Joseph.Mengele.Quote.E5E2

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..L..Mencken.Quote.9744

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