Limited Freedom Quotes
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly may not be submitted to vote; they depend on no elections.
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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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The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.
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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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Time is the only thing you can't buy.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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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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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.
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The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease, the right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
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And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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I have sworn upon the altar of god.
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A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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