Ingersoll, Robert Green -- “The Ghosts” (1877)

Dave — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:04:19 +0000

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous — if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
“The Ghosts” (1877)
(Source)

Macaulay, Thomas Babington -- “Hallam’s Constitutional History,” Edinburgh Review (Sep 1828)

Dave — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:12:36 +0000

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) English writer and politician
“Hallam’s Constitutional History,” Edinburgh Review (Sep 1828)
(Source)

Review of Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII to George II (1827).

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Ingersoll, Robert Green -- “The Ghosts” (1877)

Macaulay, Thomas Babington -- “Hallam’s Constitutional History,” Edinburgh Review (Sep 1828)