Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Horatio G. Spafford (17 March 1814)
1810s
Letter to Horatio G. Spafford (17 March 1814)
1810s
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Horatio G. Spafford (17 March 1814)
1810s
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Source: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter I-V, Chapter IV.
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Speech in the House of Lords (19 February 1821) on the debate on Naples. After the revolution in Naples in July 1820 the protocol which affirmed the right of the European Alliance to interfere to crush dangerous internal revolutions had been issued at the Congress of Troppau, October 1820. Parliamentary Debates, N.S. iv, pp. 744-59, quoted in Alan Bullock and Maurice Shock (ed.), The Liberal Tradition from Fox to Keynes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), pp. 13-16.
1820s
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic
Jeder liebt sein Land, seine Sitten, seine Sprache, sein Weib, seine Kinder, nicht weil sie die besten auf der Welt, sondern weil sie die bewährten Seinigen sind, und er in ihnen sich und seine Mühe selbst liebt.
Vol. 1, p. 13; translation vol. 1, p. 18
Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (1784-91)
“Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World Revisited
Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 6 (pp. 52-53)
“It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
Edward Abbey, "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." as written in "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness" (Vox Clamantis en Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal (1990), ISBN 0312064888.
Misattributed
Condoleezza Rice (1954) American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist
CNN Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=7877, July 29, 2001.
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Mais qu’un marchand de chameaux excite une sédition dans sa bourgade; qu’associé à quelques malheureux coracites il leur persuade qu’il s’entretient avec l’ange Gabriel; qu’il se vante d’avoir été ravi au ciel, et d’y avoir reçu une partie de ce livre inintelligible qui fait frémir le sens commun à chaque page; que, pour faire respecter ce livre, il porte dans sa patrie le fer et la flamme; qu’il égorge les pères, qu’il ravisse les filles, qu’il donne aux vaincus le choix de sa religion ou de la mort, c’est assurément ce que nul homme ne peut excuser, à moins qu’il ne soit né Turc, et que la superstition n’étouffe en lui toute lumière naturelle.
Referring to Muhammad, in a letter to Frederick II of Prussia (December 1740), published in Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, Vol. 7 (1869), edited by Georges Avenel, p. 105
Citas
William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
‘Observations on Priestley's Emigration’ (August 1794), Porcupine's Works; containing various writings and selections, exhibiting a faithful picture of the United States of America, Volume I (1801), p. 169
1790s
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, Speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio (1861), Gazette version