"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty...." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
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“Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.”
“The soil is the gift of God to the living.”
“No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.”
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“Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.”
“If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.”
“The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.”
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“It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every countryto preserve peace, to punish acts in breach of it, and to restore property taken by force withinits limits.”
“Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.”
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”