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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”