"Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own."
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"Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty."
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"Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither."
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"As long as men die, liberty will never parish."
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"Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star."
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"Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics."
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"If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it."
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"The basis of a democratic state is liberty"
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"I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics."
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"Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action."
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"The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known."
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"You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it."
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"Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world."
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"Will is wish, and liberty is power."
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"Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas."
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"To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life."
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"We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own."
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"The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents."
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"Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power."
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"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."
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