"The less government we have the better."
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"The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty."
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"Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty."
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"And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom."
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"The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone."
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"In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance."
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"I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty."
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"Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty."
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"I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it."
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"The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess."
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"But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty."
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"[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty."
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"The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing."
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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people."
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"The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation: that which is All, and which therefore is no limited or individual thing: The All is no-thing, for if it were to be a single thing separated from all other things, it would not be All."
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"A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty"
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"Laws do not persuade just because they threaten."
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"We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy."
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"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."
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"It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason."
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