Thoughts from the two Toms
Jefferson -
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Paine -
These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Jefferson -
The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.
Freedom of the person under the protection of the habeas corpus I deem [one of the] essential principles of our government. -- 1st Inaugural Address, 1801
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
Paine -
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
And a couple of more from some other haters of America
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...
~Theodore Roosevelt
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
~George Washington
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Paine -
These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Jefferson -
The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.
Freedom of the person under the protection of the habeas corpus I deem [one of the] essential principles of our government. -- 1st Inaugural Address, 1801
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
Paine -
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
And a couple of more from some other haters of America
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...
~Theodore Roosevelt
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
~George Washington