Free Press AnthologyFree speech league and the Truth seeker publishing Company, 1909 - 267 páginas |
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Página 93 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Página 95 - To suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all [religious] liberty; because he being, of course, judge of that tendency; will make his
Página 175 - Not till thus cleansed can you join in these words: "I know and am persuaded by the (Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself, but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Página 25 - also be heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest"; which, I beseech you, is best for the salvation of men's souls; that they should enquire, hear, examine, consider, and then have the liberty to profess what they are persuaded of; or,
Página 242 - teaching such disbelief in or opposition to all organized government, or who advocates or teaches the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally of the government of the
Página 15 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle
Página 45 - It is necessary to consider separately these two hypotheses, each of which has a distinct branch of the argument corresponding to it. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. Unfortunately for the good sense
Página 249 - Notwithstanding all these admitted facts, the court held the pamphlet to be obscene and laid down this test: "Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds
Página 34 - which belong to them, or live without them. Genius breaks from the fetters of criticism, but its wanderings are sanctioned by its majesty and wisdom, when it advances in its path; subject it to the critic, and you tame it into dullness. Mighty rivers break down their banks in the winter, sweeping away to death the
Página 93 - Give me but the Liberty of the Press, and I will give to the minister a venal House of Peers—I will give him a corrupt and servile House of Commons—I will give him the full sway of the patronage of office— I will give him the whole host of ministerial influence—I will give him all the power