Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician
Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture (1862)
“The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.”
Book III, ode iii, line 1
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
1950s, First Inaugural Address (1953)
Charles Foster Johnson (1953) American musician
May 1, 2007 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25321_Kos_on_Truth&only
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 417.
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”
Ludwig von Mises book Bureaucracy
Source: Bureaucracy
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: The question to be tried by you is whether a man has the right to express his honest thought; and for that reason there can be no case of greater importance submitted to a jury. And it may be well enough for me, at the outset, to admit that there could be no case in which I could take a greater — a deeper interest. For my part, I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.
I deny the right of any man, of any number of men, of any church, of any State, to put a padlock on the lips — to make the tongue a convict. I passionately deny the right of the Herod of authority to kill the children of the brain.
A man has a right to work with his hands, to plow the earth, to sow the seed, and that man has a right to reap the harvest. If we have not that right, then all are slaves except those who take these rights from their fellow-men.
“Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”
Bernard Baruch (1870–1965) American businessman
Deming Headlight (New Mexico), 6 January 1950, as cited in the Yale Book of Modern Proverbs and at There Are Opinions, And Then There Are Facts; Freakonomics blog post by Fred R. Shapiro http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/08/18/there-are-opinions-and-then-there-are-facts/ (18 August 2011)
Francisco Luís Gomes (1829–1869) Indo-Portuguese physician, writer, historian, economist, political scientist and MP in the Portuguese parli…
Le Marquis de Pombal, p. 377
Le marquis de Pombal (1869)
