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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige
that the warrior does today.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar (1897-1980)
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Francois Voltaire (1694-1778)
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands
in times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Emiliano Zappata (1879-1919
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
Benjamin Cardozo (1870-1938)
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say “This is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
John Philpot Curran (1750-1817).
An honest man, like true religion, appeals to the understanding, or modestly confides in the internal evidence of his conscience. The imposter employs force instead of argument, imposes silence where he cannot convince, and propagates his character by the sword.
The Letters Of Junius (1769-1771)
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemies from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man’s nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780)
The invention of printing and the Reformation are and remain the two outstanding services of central Europe to the cause of humanity.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Francois Voltaire (1694-1778)
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941)
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.
George Washington (May 1789)
Religion is essentially distinct from civil Government, and exempt from its cognizance; ...a connection between them is injurious to both.
James Madison (March 19, 1823)
When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig’d to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
Benjamin Franklin (Oct. 9, 1780)
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions... It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion—to which free-will and not force should lead us.
Tertullian
Condemn no man for not thinking as you think: Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself: Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution. If you cannot reason or persuade a man into truth, never attempt to force him into it. If love will not compel him to come in, leave him to God, the Judge of all.
John Wesley (1872)
Almighty God hath created the mind free; ...all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do.
Thomas Jefferson (1786)
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous Huxley — The Olive Tree
Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish — where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source — no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials — and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.
W.J.Bryan, in introduction to “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson.”
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.
Roosevelt’s letter on religious liberty.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on His side.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever seperate.
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
The purpose of separation of Church and State is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.
James Madison (1751-1836)
Truth is not what I believe. Truth is not even what I know.
Truth is fact. I may not believe it. I may not know it. That does not change it.
It is there nevertheless, waiting to be discovered and believed.
Truth does not depend on the unsettled and changing opinions of men.
It was truth before it was believed. It will remain truth, whether it is believed or not.
Reason does not originate or create it. It merely discovers it.
Consequently, reason is not a source. Truth goes back beyond reason.
Others would have us believe that the Church is the source or authority,
particularly in matters of theology. They are WRONG!
The Church is the product of truth. It does not originate it.
It came into being by accepting divine revelations. It is not the source of that revelation.
Truth goes beyond the Church, it is antecedent to it.
Carlyle B. Haynes (1882-1958)
