Sedition Quotes
President Lincoln reversed this order. Most Northerners however sided with Burnside on this point. They saw little point to protecting traitors who were helping to kill their neighbors by encouraging the Southerners.
Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims. However, we see in Spinoza the observations and foundations of what would become American and then international views of human rights.
Power to legislate had just been given to Hitler and his cabinet.
Harrison, then a young Captain, was concerned about the French, British and Spanish agents "plotting" in the United States:
Aristotle was one of the great intellects of all time. For a thousand years he was the Western World’s greatest philosopher, scientist, political scientists and teacher. Yet he was executed by the state for saying things that were regarded as blasphemous and disloyal to the state.
Ironically, until after the assassination of JFK, the United States did not have a specific crime against killing the President.
This was one of the several early unofficial Emancipations that was issued in the Civil War.
This became a critically important quotation a half century after it was made. Judge Hand articulated the majority Western and Judeo-Christian value proposition between dissent and heresy. However, for the majority of the Islamic world, the reverse represents the majority value that is held. There is a minority in the West that agrees that avoidance of heresy is paramount and a minority of the Muslim world that agrees that the protection of dissent is the more important value, but the two civilizations were at odds in the 20th and 21st centuries. However, Islam is about 600 years younger than Christianity. 600 years ago, the Christian world agreed with the Muslim society and prevention of heresy was the more important value. The Reformation and the enlightenment followed by the world example of America produced a transformation and this may occur in the majority of the Islamic world in time.
She served a year in jail for this statement.
Muir was advocating extending the vote to male, non-land owners. He was convicted, sent to the Botany Bay prison colony in Australia, escaped to France, and his cause did later triumph.
The Flies was a play and this quotation is dialogue uttered by King Aegistheus in Act 2. The existence of a free man or woman has always been an anathema to a King or a Dictator.
Warning to John Calhoun and other South Carolinians about the implications of their nullification of the Tariff Act of 1832:
