Bloody Quote by Thaddeus Stevens

“Fanatics fear liberty more than they fear persecution.”

— Ernest Renan

Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

— William J. Clinton

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has…

— Otto Hermann Kahn

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of…

— William Ellery Channing

Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical…

— Bertrand Russell

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

— Benjamin Rush

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations…

— Lord Acton

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not…

— Joseph Butler

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where…

— John C. Calhoun

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the…

— Mercedes Lackey

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation.

— Douglas Murray