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"To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors."
"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy."
"Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away — that taxes imposed on us by parliament, do thus take it away."
"Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session."
"The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation."
"Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals."
"Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man."
"A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."
"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality"
"If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days."
"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."
"The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good."
"Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear."
"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."
"It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty."
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
"I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else."
"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
"It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue"
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
