"Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt."
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"In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others."
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"Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty."
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"If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!"
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"We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels."
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"The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all those who love liberty."
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"Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty."
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"Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty."
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"My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism."
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"As a boxer I took the liberty of using not only my fists, but also my head."
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"When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy."
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"Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes."
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"We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids."
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"In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute."
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"The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . ."
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"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when the establishment of American Liberty, upon the most firm and solid foundations shall enable us to return to our Private Stations in the bosom of a free, peacefully and happy Country."
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"They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty."
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"Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues."
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"He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative."
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"The only object of liberty is life."
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