"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
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"We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law."
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"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
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"...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself."
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"The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master."
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"A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence."
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"All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers."
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"Liberties are not given, they are taken."
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"The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others."
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"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
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"There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen."
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"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."
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"It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance."
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"What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]"
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"Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free."
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"Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press."
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"Liberty is not a right but a duty."
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"Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius."
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"The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty"
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"We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody."
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