Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Liberty Quotes - John Stuart Mill, Jonathan Swift, Lyndon B. Johnson

"Protection, therefore, against the tyranny
of the magistrate is not enough;
there needs protection against the tyranny
of the prevailing opinion and feeling,
against the tendency of society to impose,
by other means than civil penalties,
its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct
on those who dissent from them."
-- John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
Source: On Liberty, 1859
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Stuart.Mill.Quote.A7E3


"It is a maxim among lawyers that whatever hath been done before may be done again, and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opinions, and the judges never fail of directing them accordingly."
-- Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745) Irish author
Source: Gulliver’s Travels, 1726
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jonathan.Swift.Quote.3101


"You do not examine legislation in the light
of the benefits it will convey if properly administered,
but in the light of the wrongs it would do and
the harm it would cause if improperly administered."
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
(1908-1973) 37th US President (1963-1969)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Lyndon.Johnson.Quote.4000


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