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Quotes from The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties — Alan Barth

1906–1979

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Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties (1984)

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free – which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties (1984)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alan Barth (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.