It is that unique self-definition which has given us an exceptional appeal, but it also imposes on us a special obligation, to take on those moral duties which, when assumed, seem invariably to be in our own best interests.
Presidency (1977–1981), Inaugural Address (1977)
Source: Gay Rights http://badnarik.org/plans_gayrights.php
1850s, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)
Context: Already the liberal party throughout the world, express the apprehension “ that the one retrograde institution in America, is undermining the principles of progress, and fatally violating the noblest political system the world ever saw. http://mcdaniel.blogs.rice.edu/?p=126” This is not the taunt of enemies, but the warning of friends. Is it quite safe to disregard it — to despise it? Is there no danger to liberty itself, in discarding the earliest practice, and first precept of our ancient faith? In our greedy chase to make profit of the negro, let us beware, lest we “cancel and tear to pieces” even the white man's charter of freedom.
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter VII : "It's Just Like Living", p. 186
Faith for Living (1940)
Source: Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime (1994), p. 243
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.”
Also attributed to Thomas Jefferson, this is a modern paraphrase of a statement of Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Misattributed
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.”
This has actually become a common paraphrase of a statement that is believed to have originated with Benjamin Franklin: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Misattributed
Christian Homburg, Jan Wieseke, and Wayne D. Hoyer. "Social identity and the service-profit chain." Journal of Marketing 73.2 (2009). p. 54
