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“There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their conviction that this nation means only to do good, and almost always does good, in the world, that it is the beacon of liberty and freedom.”

“For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

“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.”

“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”

“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.”

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”