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“Nine-tenths of the people are at present freeholders... The time is not distant when this country will abound with mechanics and manufacturers who will receive their bread from their employers. Will such men be the secure and faithful guardians of liberty? Give the votes to people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich who will be able to buy them.”

People Men Giving Country Wisdom Able Politics Liberty Economy Rich Vote Sells Property Nine Bread Secure Faithful Liberalism Mechanic Guardian Employers

Author:Gouverneur Morris

“I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.”

Men Believe Humans I Believe Liberty Land Masters Salvation Wine I Believe In Guardian Pitiful Freeman Condescension

Book:Works: ¬The new freedom of call for the emancipation of the generous energies of a people

Source: Works: ¬The new freedom of call for the emancipation of the generous energies of a people

“But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.”

People Important Law Views Education Liberty Safe Ultimate Universal Guardian Rendering Universal Education

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty.”

People States Government Able Earth Can Do Liberty Watches Effects Operations Opponents Assumption Federal Government Guardian Legislature State Legislatures Jealously

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The liberties of England cannot but subsist so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, ... but also from all secret machinations, which may sap and undermine it.”

May Long Important Secret Liberty Highest England Remains Sacred Privilege Trials Guardian Beneficial Jury Sap Trial By Jury

Author:William Blackstone

“Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.”

Liberty Constitution Unions Guardian Approved

Author:Samuel Adams