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Tag: Dorothy Thompson

(1894-1961)

Losing liberty

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 7, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories libertyTags Dorothy Thompson

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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