"The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted."

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Source : "Letter to the Editor". The New York Times, 1971.

Henry Steele Commager

#Mean Quotes #Rights Quotes #Government Quotes

“A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.”

Source : "The British System of Government". Book by Dilwyn Thomas, 1965.
“People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.”
“Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.”

Source : Gordon Willard Allport (1955). “Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”, p.19, Yale University Press
“In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.”
“I should be able to express moral views on social issues. . . without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those who preach â€˜toleranceâ€™ that I need to either bend my beliefs to THEIR moral standards or be silent when Iâ€™m in the public square.”

Source : "Kirk Cameron Says He Is a Victim of 'Hate Speech' and 'Slander' After He Calls Homosexuality 'Unnatural, Detrimental and Destructive' on National TV". www.dailymail.co.uk. March 07, 2012.
“We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.”
“Runes, runes, runes... Runes. An inverted Algiz rune. The caption next to it said â€œChernobog.â€ The Black God. Right. Of course, it wouldnâ€™t be Chernobog, God of Morning Dew on the Rose Petals, but a woman could always hope.”
“If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like 'are you a unicorn?'”

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