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- When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own…
- I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly…
- We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
- I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance…
- Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
- The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great…
- As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air…
- This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association,…
- The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every…
- We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races and all beliefs.…
- Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?
- The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote…
- Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all…
- Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created an adult unrest…
- The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.
- The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
- Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle