Free Press AnthologyFree speech league and the Truth seeker publishing Company, 1909 - 267 páginas |
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Página 99 - 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 101 - 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 181 - 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 31 - 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 248 - 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 51 - 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 255 - 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 99 - 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
Página 21 - consists in this, that out of many moderate varieties and brotherly dissimilitudes that are not vastly disproportional, arises the goodly and the graceful symmetry that commends the whole pile and structure. Let us therefore be more considerate builders, more wise in spiritual
Página 40 - from drowning, but the flock must perish from hunger. Tempests occasionally shake our dwellings and dissipate our commerce; but they scourge before them the lazy elements, which without them would stagnate into pestilence. In like manner, Liberty herself, the last and best gift of God to His creatures, must be taken just as she is; you might