Words and Phrases
- Why doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone? - JIMMY DURANTE
- No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed. - HELEN KELLER
- That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
- It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. - WILLIAM JAMES
- Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. - MOHANDAS K. GANDHI
- Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. - ALDOUS HUXLEY
- Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
- A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. - ROBERT FROST
- The United States ranks 13th on the Human Freedom Index. Twelve other countries are freer than the United States. - UNITED NATIONS
- Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are wiling to give it to others. - WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
- Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built. - LORD HERBERT LOUIS SAMUEL
- For why should my freedom be judges by another's conscience? - PAUL (1 Corinthians 10:29)
- In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone. - GEOFFREY FISHER ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
- Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. - SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS
- I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading. - LORD CONESFORD
- Our relations with a good joke are direct and even divine relations. - G.K. CHESTERTON
- We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - HEGEL
- LARRY KING: Don't you think it would be better to legalize victimless crimes like drugs and prostitution and divert the resources to more important things like the rapes and assaults and things like that?
SENATOR TOM HARKIN: No, I don't agree with that at all. - "LARRY KING LIVE" (CNN, 1992)
- It's time to stop living with the paranoia of "what if" and start facing the reality of "what is." "What is" is a real crisis in education, in health care, in the economy. "What is" the real national security, is the need for a nation to feel secure. - BARBRA STREISAND
- We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. - PAUL BROOKS
- Hypocrisy---prejudice with a halo. - AMBROSE BIERCE
- Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. - SENECA (A.D. 65)
- The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America - HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
- For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life. - ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR.
- The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people. - JUSTICE WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS
- The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. - HENRY KISSINGER
- A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular and what no just government should refuse to rest on inference. - THOMAS JEFFERSON (to James Madison December 20, 1787)
- [The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government. - JUDGE LAWRENCE TRIBE
- Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. - F. LEE BAILEY
- The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. - JUSTICE POTTER STEWART
- [On the Third Amendment] This provision speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion. - JUSTICE JOSEPH STORY (1833)
- If drugs are criminal, only criminals will have drugs.
- I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says. - JUSTICE HUGO BLACK
- When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. - CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
- The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. - JUSTICE HUGO BLACK
- I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H.L. MENCKEN
- I think your slogan "Liberty or Death" is splendid and whichever one you decide on will be all right with me. - ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. - OSCAR WILDE
- America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. - BOBCAT GOLDTHWAITE
- A substantial portion of Deist literature was devoted to the description of the noxious practices of all religions in all times. For many religious Deists the teachings of Christ were not essentially novel but were, in reality, as old as creation. - ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
- I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my value system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. - PROFESSOR MILTON FRIEDMAN (1986 one of Reagan's economic advisors)
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