| Author |
Quotes |
| James Fenimore Cooper | ...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty is said to be less. In other words, men are thought to be more under the control of extra-legal authorities, and to defer more to those around them, in pursuing even their lawful and innocent occupations, than in almost every other country. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. |
| James Harvey Robinson | Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. |
| James Madison | If men were angels, no government would be necessary. |
| James Reston | A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. |
| James Reston | Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. |
| James William Fulbright | In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. |
| James Wilson | Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. |
| Jane Bryant Quinn | Laywers, I suppose, were children once. |
| Jean Rostand | Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. |
| Jello Biafra | For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. |
| Jerry Rubin | By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary. |
| Jesse Jackson | My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. |
| Jimmy Breslin | The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. |
| Jimmy Buffett | We are the people our parents warned us about. |
| Jimmy Carter | Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. |
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