"More laws, less justice."
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"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."
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"A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible."
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"Education is the cornerstone of liberty."
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"Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason."
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"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."
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"A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts."
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"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."
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"Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos."
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"The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
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"Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems."
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"For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way."
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"For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more."
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"Evil comes in many forms and seems to reinvent itself time and again. But whatever it calls itself - Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, today, terrorism - they all have one thing in common: the destruction, the end of human liberty."
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"Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)"
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"No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline."
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""It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty... which I [would not have expected for at least] four centuries.""
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"Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once."
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"Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?"
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"Those who trade liberty for security have neither."
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