domination of any kind. The people simply govern themselves, and the
government is of the people, by the people and for the people.




FREEDOM OF THOUGHT

We must have an end of all persecution of ideas.

I condemn the government of France and Prussia when they oppress the
Jesuits.

I condemn the government of Russia when it oppresses the Jews.

I affirm that to persecute ideas is like persecuting light, air,
electricity, or the magnetic fluid.

Ideas escape all persecution. When repressed they explode like powder.




LESSON XXXVIII

FALSE NOTIONS OF LIBERTY

People talk of liberty as if it meant the liberty of doing what a man
likes. The only liberty that a man should ask for is the privilege of
removing all restrictions that prevent his doing what he ought to do.