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• o long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrranize will do so
  for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men....
• Make no laws whatever concerning speech and, speech will be free
  o soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license...
• Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. -- John Lindsay
• There is nothing so deadly as not to hold up to people the opportunity to do great and wonderful things, if we wish to stimulate them in an active way.
  -- Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate in chemistry...
• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
  -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)...
• Upon arriving there, since what they found to eat was so meage
  some of these Christians, seeing themselves in extreme hunger, killed an Indian they had captured, and roasted the entrails and ate them...
• However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
  There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs....
• Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.
  Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. -- Abigail Adams (1744-1818)...