Liberty-Tree Quotes

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"That is the key to history.
Terrific energy is expended --
civilizations are built up --
excellent institutions devised;
but each time something goes wrong.
Some fatal flaw always brings
the selfish and cruel people to the top,
and then it all slides back into misery and ruin.
In fact, the machine conks.
It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards,
and then it breaks down."
-- C. S. Lewis
(1898-1963), British novelist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/C..S..Lewis.Quote.EEEB


"Among the several cloudy appellatives
which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment,
there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion
than the word 'Order'."
-- Jeremy Bentham
(1748-1832)
Source: The Book of Fallacies, 1824
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jeremy.Bentham.Quote.2432


"At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that
the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society,
groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement
of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and
abiding practice of any western society."
-- Robert F. Kennedy
(1925-1968), US Senator, Attorney General
Source: Speech, University of Capetown, 6 June 1966
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Kennedy.Quote.F023


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