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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

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Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
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“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

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

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

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

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787
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“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”

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

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy
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“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

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Book:Mencken Chrestomathy
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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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Book:THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
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“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”

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Author:Thomas Paine
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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

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Book:A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982
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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw
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“There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.”

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Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
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“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu
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“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”

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Author:Louis D. Brandeis
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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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“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 is never more than one generation away from extinction.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan
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“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”

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Author:Louis D. Brandeis
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