"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty."
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"You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only."
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"Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery."
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"Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded."
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"Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty."
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"It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible."
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"Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving."
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"There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged."
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"The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties."
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"As government expands, liberty contracts."
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"I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship."
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"A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty."
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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
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"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
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"To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty."
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"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."
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"The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets."
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"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."
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"The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself."
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"The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty."
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