Rights Defenders

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“Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: “I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.””
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)