Richard Carlile quotes

“Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution - the only necessary Law of the Constitution.”
-- Richard Carlile

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“The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.”
-- Richard Carlile

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“I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.”
-- Richard Carlile

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“The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.”
-- Richard Carlile

Source : Richard Carlile, Olinthus Gregory (1821). “Observations on "Letters to a Friend on the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties of the Christian Religion by Olinthus Gregory" L.L.D. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich: In a Letter to the Rev. William Wait”, p.54

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“After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.”

“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”

“Labor is the law of happiness.”

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.”

Source : Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

“Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.”

“We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.”

“Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.”

Source : "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.

“The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.”

“Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.”

“For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.”