Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes
Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbell. Living Words. Abel Tompkins, 1860, p. 125.
While this statement and others like it, appear reasonable to most people, in practice most societies impose a different standard. They often do not want the only limitation on freedom to be refraining from impinging on the liberty of others. They often want to impose a morality on the society. Gay marriage is a good example. If a gay couple weds, there is no impingement on the liberty to marry of straight people. None-the-less, many opposed it.
This quotation is sometimes misattributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Chaffee was a leading scholar of Freedom of Speech. As such he was described by the demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy as "dangerous" to the United States.
Cuomo was addressing fellow Roman Catholics, but the principle applies to all groups.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin was an American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie.
