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“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

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

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

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”

“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.”

“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.”