Quote by Hosea Ballou
The oppression of any people for opinions sake has rarely had any

The oppression of any people for opinions sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. – Hosea Ballou

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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. – Hosea Ballou

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Evangelism
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. – Woodrow Wilson

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Freedom

Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I dont think they sit there abstractly hating freedom. – Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Freedom

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. – Willa Cather

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Freedom

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other. – Chris Patten

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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable. – Louisa May Alcott

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I am a part of all that I have met. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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