"Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty."
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"We are all of us the worse for too much liberty."
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"How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"
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"Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health."
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"Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty."
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"They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty."
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"The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless."
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"The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants."
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"Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends."
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"There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you? Will you lovers of liberty, will you rise to the occasion?"
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"We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white."
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"How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?"
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"Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security."
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"When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant."
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"Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny."
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"Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property."
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"There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all."
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"Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains."
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"While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself."
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"Light and liberty go together."
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