"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty."
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"The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?"
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"Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached."
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"Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of the woman, the emancipation of the man and the liberty of the child."
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"Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow."
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"Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty."
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"Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others."
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"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."
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"Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded."
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"Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society."
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"Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times."
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"Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being."
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"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."
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"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
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"Fatigue is the best pillow."
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"Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages."
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"National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties."
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"Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us."
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"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."
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"The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
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