Quote #26

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.

More from Dorothy Thompson

  1. Well, it is our fate to live in a time of crisis. To live in a time when all forms and values are being challenged. In other and more easy …
  2. They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.
  3. There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
  4. The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
  5. The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
  6. The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps wi…
  7. The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
  8. People have confidence in women to get them out of trouble.

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