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“Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”

“The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.”

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Author:Frank I. Cobb

“There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.”

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Author:Alan K. Simpson

“No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.”

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Author:Wendell Phillips

“A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.”

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Book:The Principles of Ethics

Source: The Principles of Ethics

“Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.”

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Book:The method of freedom

Source: The method of freedom

“There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.”

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Author:Antonin Scalia

“In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As a result, we have become little more than well-fed, well-entertained slaves to the state. Freedom, as envisioned by our forefathers, is gone.”

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Author:Chuck Baldwin

“It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.”

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Author:James F. Cooper

“There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.”

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Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage