"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master."
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"The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship."
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"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."
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"I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name."
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"A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty."
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"In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party"
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"Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word."
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"History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality."
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"Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree."
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"Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!"
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"Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all."
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"Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law."
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"The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence."
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"Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality."
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"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."
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"You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism."
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"Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty."
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"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
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"The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness."
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"The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither."
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