Voices of Democracy: A Handbook for Speakers, Teachers, and Writers |
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... A day , an hour , of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage . -Joseph Addison ( 1713 ) . Liberty will not descend to a people , a people must raise themselves to liberty ; it is a blessing that must be earned before it ...
... A day , an hour , of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage . -Joseph Addison ( 1713 ) . Liberty will not descend to a people , a people must raise themselves to liberty ; it is a blessing that must be earned before it ...
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Adams American statesman asked battle Bill of Rights Boston brother Charles citizen civil liberties Colonies Confucius Constitution democracy democratic disciple England English author English statesman error eternal faith false falsehood Flavus Franklin free press free speech freedom of speech George George Pope Morris give Governor Henry Hermann found human illus Independence jail James James Truslow Adams Jedediah Peck Jefferson 1787 Jefferson 1801 John John Peter Zenger Joseph Smith Joshua Verein judge jury justice King Lansing Lincoln living London mankind Mann member of Parliament ment Milton mind MOMENTS IN FREEDOM moral nation never numbers opinion oppressive government peace Penn philosopher Pierre Dreyfus political preaching President principles prisoner reason religion religious Republic Richard Carlile Roger Williams Roman Secretary slaves soldiers stand story struggle suffrage suppress things Thomas Jefferson thought trial true truth tyranny union Voices Wilkes William Cowper William Penn Wilson York
Popular passages
Page 35 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.
Page 27 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Page 11 - All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect and to violate would be oppression.
Page 22 - ... that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical ; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor, whose morals he would make his pattern...
Page 9 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 13 - ... a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished...
Page 22 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Page 17 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 8 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 24 - He's true to God who's true to man ; wherever wrong is done, To the humblest and the weakest, 'neath the all-beholding sun, That wrong is also done to us ; and they are slaves most base, Whose love of right is for themselves, and not for all their race.