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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: More Quotes Daily Telegraph quotes: Today, The Daily Telegraph starts its 'A Free Country' campaign. Week by week, and in major individual investigations, we shall examine how freedom is being taken away, whether by Westminster or Whitehall or Brussels or any other authority. We shall try to annoy the control freaks, whether they are Right, Left or Centre, and we shall welcome allies for freedom from all quarters. The Conservative leadership contestants hardly breathe a word about freedom. The Labour Government's Queen's Speech is a shopping list of attacks on our liberties. There's plenty to do. Libertad o muerte! Mayor Richard Daley quotes: The police are not here to create disorder. The police are here to preserve disorder. Charles de Gaulle quotes: In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Clarence S. Darrow quotes: There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action. You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. There is no justice, in or out of court. The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land. Alexis de Tocqueville quotes: ... liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. America is great because America is good. If America ever ceases to be good it will cease to be great. The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. In the end, the state of the Union comes down to the character of the people. ... I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, and it was not there. I sought for it in the fertile fields, and boundless prairies, and it was not there. I sought it in her rich mines, and vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. Declaration of Independence quotes: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, ... That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Bo Diddley quote: Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash. Justice William O. Douglas quotes: Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation. Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like. The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest. The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person’s] life. The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and…the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience. The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in men’s struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left. The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial. The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information. Bears repeating; The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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