"I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude"
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"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."
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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
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"That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone."
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"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."
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"Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system."
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"Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment."
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"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
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"It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man."
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"I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience."
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"Liberty consists in doing what one desires."
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"Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
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"Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any other conclusion would necessarily imply either privilege or servitude."
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"The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency."
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"A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either."
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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
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"Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied."
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"Liberation is not deliverance."
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"Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!"
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"They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it."
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