Liberty's First Crisis Quotes

“The greatest enemy of liberty is fear. When people feel comfortable and well protected, they are naturally expansive and tolerant of one another’s opinions and rights. When they feel threatened, their tolerance shrinks.”
― Charles Slack, Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech

“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”
― Charles Slack, Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech

“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.”
― Charles Slack, Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech

“On September 26, 1789, members debated a resolution introduced by Aedanus Burke of South Carolina, charging journalists with having “misrepresented these debates in the most glaring deviations from truth,” and with “throwing over the whole proceedings a thick veil of misrepresentation and error.”
― Charles Slack, Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech