The Civilian Quote Thread II

[Woodmonkey]

'Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.' - Ronald Reagan

[Woodmonkey]

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Sir Winston Churchill

[Snowden]

"In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands." -- Anthony de Jasay (1925- ) Hungarian writer

Source: The State (Oxford: Basic Blackwell, 1985), p. 123.

[Woodmonkey]

For some reason, you stated a second Civilian Quote II thread and put in a quote. I deleted that and brought the quote over.

Originally Posted by Snowden

"The only protection of every citizen from such deprivation of rights is a strict adherence to the Bill of Rights by everyone for everyone. This should be self-evident but the danger of erosion of rights stems largely from the fact that so many citizens of the majority, who have never been deprived of any of these rights, find it difficult to understand what the deprivation of them means in the lives of others." -- Earl Warren (1891-1974) Chief Justice, U. S. Supreme Court

Source: "A Republic, If You Can Keep It", p. 48

[Snowden]

I couldn't find it, that's why I started that one. I even used the Search thing. Odd, isn't it!

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"They: The makers of the Constitution: conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
(1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice
Source: 1928

[Woodmonkey]

I found it just by looking at the page. Seeing a second thread alerted me that something was wrong.