Freedom Liberty Quotes
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The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
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When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.
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We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.
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The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.
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But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
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..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.
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To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
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