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Henry David Thoreau, H. L. Mencken, Thomas Babington Macaulay


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"The law will never make men free;

it is men who have got to make the law free."

-- Henry David Thoreau

(1817-1862)

Source: Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.David.Thoreau.Quote.9E20

 

 

"The most dangerous man, to any government,

is the man who is able to think things out for himself,

without regard to prevailing superstition or taboo."

-- H. L. Mencken

(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic

Source: Minority Report

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..L..Mencken.Quote.A7DC

 

 

"I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must,

sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both."

-- Thomas Babington Macaulay

(1800-1859) [Lord Macaulay] 1st Baron Macaulay, British historian

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Babington.Macaulay.Quote.3FB7

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