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

“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”

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

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”

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

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”

“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.”

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”

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

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

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

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”

“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.”

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

“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.”

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”