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“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.”

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Book:Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
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“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?”

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Author:Patrick Henry
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“There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters”

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Book:The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings
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“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

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Author:James Madison
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“If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.”

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Author:Joseph Sobran
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“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”

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Book:The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author
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“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.”

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Book:An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System
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“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”

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Book:Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
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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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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.”

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Book:The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
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“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.”

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Book:The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802
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“liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.”

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Book:Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
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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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Book:The Law
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“America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.”

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Book:The origin and principles of the American Revolution compared with the origin and principles of the French Revolution: a facsimile reproduction
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

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Author:Edmund Burke
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“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”

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Author:Edmund Burke
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“The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions”

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Book:The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings
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“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin
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“In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.”

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Book:My Life in France
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“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.”

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Author:Learned Hand
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“Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.”

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Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
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“What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.”

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Author:Elbridge Gerry
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“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.”

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Book:Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Booker T. Washington. Thomas Arnold. Erasmus. Hypatia. St. Benedict. Mary Baker Eddy
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“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

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Book:The Gathering Storm
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“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be tomorrow.”

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Book:The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
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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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Book:Ideas and Opinions
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“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.”

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Book:Speaking of Abraham Lincoln
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“To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”

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Author:George Mason
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“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”

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Author:George Washington
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