"If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence."
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"Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety."
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"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise."
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"All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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"The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity."
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"Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes."
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"The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means."
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"In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods."
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"No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom."
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"Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded."
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"I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours."
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"Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law."
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"It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death"
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"When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength."
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"A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison."
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"When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws."
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"We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are."
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"Liberty for all; chains for none."
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"Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither."
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"Money is coined liberty."
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