Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
We intend to try by every means in our power to seize the country and create a government without bloodshed.