"Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way."
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"The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty."
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"Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order."
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"Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty."
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"The United States should get rid of its militias."
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"All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should."
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"Everything government touches turns to crap."
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"Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense."
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"I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason."
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"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government."
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"I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours."
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"If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom."
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"Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away lives of others or abases the dignity of others cannot be true liberty."
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"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."
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"I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own."
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"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."
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"The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty."
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"We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery."
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"The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent."
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"No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy."
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