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"Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master."
"An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff."
"You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack."
"You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it."
"It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism."
"It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty."
"Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty."
"Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer"
"I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and despotism, something will be gained for the former. As men become better informed, their rulers must respect them the more."
"Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty."
"When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty."
"Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God."
"The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it."
"Liberty and equality are magical words."
"Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him."
"But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."
"The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death."
"[T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement."
"It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal."
"Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?"
