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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

“Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

“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!”

“Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.”

“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.”

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

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

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

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

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

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”