Liberty Quotes

"Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, if men might not justly defend themselves against injustice by their own natural right, when the ways prescribed by publick authority cannot be taken."
-- Algernon Sidney
(1622-1683) English statesman, writer, Whig leader
Source: Discourses Concerning Government 266-67 (1763)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Algernon.Sidney.Quote.90A5


"If oppression and wrong should gain the ascendancy, and injustice stalk abroad in the land, and all else fail him; nevertheless his humblest roof, and all things that are sheltered beneath it, would find, somehow, someway, a final refuge and protection in the Supreme Court of the United States."
-- Edward J. Phelps
(1822-1900) American diplomat, Envoy to Court of St. James's in Britain
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Edward.Phelps.Quote.97B1


"To vest a few fallible men -- prosecutors, judges, jurors -- with vast powers
of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J.S. Mill called
the "moral police" is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products... If
one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do otherwise
to a work of a genius. Originality, not too plentiful, should be cherished, not
stifled. An author's imagination may be cramped if he must write with an eye on
prosecutors or juries…"
-- Jerome D. Frank
(1889-1957)
Source: Second Circuit of Appeals, 1956
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jerome.Frank.Quote.3378


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