"Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens."
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"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power."
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"The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it."
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"History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator."
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"Man is not free unless government is limited."
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"Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality."
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"It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary."
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"When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her."
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"Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions."
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"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
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"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip."
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"Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!"
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"I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them."
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"Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery."
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"May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin!"
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"The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals."
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"No nation was ever ruined by trade."
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"Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel."
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"To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom."
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"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."
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