Thursday, April 3, 2014

Liberty Quotes - Georges Ripert, Henry David Thoreau, H. L. Mencken

"The man who lives under the servitude of laws takes,
without being aware of it, the soul of a slave.
-- Georges Ripert
Source: Le Déclin du Droit. Etude sur la législation contemporaine (Paris: Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, 1949), p. 94
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Georges.Ripert.Quote.653A


"Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or
shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded,
or shall we transgress them at once?"
-- Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
Source: Civil Disobedience (1849)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.David.Thoreau.Quote.144E


"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
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..L..Mencken.Quote.02A7


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