Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-09-09 Sep 8, 2006[Socialism] is a creed even more denigrating than Catholicism, but it offers more tangible bribes for its acceptance.~ Auberon HerbertWe're too great a nation to allow the evildoers to affect our soul.~ George W. BushPeople constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men.~ H. L. Mencken Sep 7, 2006The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.~ Pope Leo XIIITo assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.~ Cardnial Robert BellarmineOne Galileo in two thousand years is enough.~ Pope Pius XII Sep 6, 2006Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?~ Jean-Baptiste SayYou have not converted a man because you have silenced him.~ John Viscount MorleyReligions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.~ Leon Trotsky Sep 5, 2006Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.~ Justice Robert H. JacksonThe history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonPersecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Sep 4, 2006In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.~ Alexander HamiltonWe ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.~ Charles-Louis De SecondatHeresy is only another word for freedom of thought.~ Graham Greene Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print