Ron Paul (1935) American politician and physician
Freedom Under Siege http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/freedom_under_siege.php (1987). <br class="br">1980s
Source: REP. PAUL GOSAR ISSUES STATEMENT ON ROE V. WADE ANNIVERSARY https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2241 (Washington, DC, January 22, 2013)
Ron Paul (1935) American politician and physician
Freedom Under Siege http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/freedom_under_siege.php (1987). <br class="br">1980s
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Il est à peu près impossible de constituer systématiquement une morale naturelle. La nature n'a pas de principes. Elle ne nous fournit aucune raison de croire que la vie humaine est respectable. La nature, indifférente, ne fait nulle distinction du bien et du mal.
La Révolte des Anges [The Revolt of the Angels] (1914), ch. XXVII
James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
Regarding using the words "slave" or "slaver" in the U.S. Constitution (25 August 1787); as quoted in "The Present Aspect of the Slavery Question" in Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis (1894), p. 69 https://books.google.com/books?id=y3RaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA69&dq=%22We+intend+this+Constitution+to+be+the+great+charter+of+human+liberty+to+the+unborn+%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMI2ai6jcCsxwIVRRs-Ch38_wz2#v=onepage&q=%22We%20intend%20this%20Constitution%20to%20be%20the%20great%20charter%20of%20human%20liberty%20to%20the%20unborn%20%22&f=false <br class="br">1780s, The Debates in the Federal Convention (1787)
Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor
2000s, Bush's Lincolnian Challenge (2002)
Neo Masisi (1962) first lady of Botswana
Source: Neo Masisi https://www.unicef.org/botswana/media/191/file/E-Seng-Mo-Ngwaneng-Report-2019.pdf Campaign Brief, Botswana Country Office: Interim Update (17 January 2019) Retrieved 5 November 2021.
John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894) British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician
The Queen v. Instan (1893), L. R. 1 Q. B. [1893], p. 453.
Frances Wright (1795–1852) American activist
A Few Days in Athens (1822) Vol. II
Context: An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.
Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geogr…
Source: "Words of a Rebel"; as quoted in The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues (1992) by Charles Bufe, p. 26