"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."

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Source : "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, New York: Pantheon, (p. 153), 1943.

Charles Peguy

#Liberty Quotes #Tyranny Quotes #Organized Quotes

“I'm 27 and guys are pitching into their 40s now. For unfortunate reasons, I haven't been healthy since 2005. But I feel that I have a lot of great years ahead of me.”
“We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being ostracised because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.”
“I think 'On The Air' was a little too bizarre for TV.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2009.
“I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.”
“Haters and doubters got me here, but supporters keep me here.”
“Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.”
“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”
“America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.”

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