♦ nivek ♦ Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 "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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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