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“The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!.”

Wells Hard Government Today Lying Liberty Teach Our Lives Security Lessons Property Threat Forgotten Well Being Ancestor Rulers

Author:Jacob G. Hornberger

“I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty , and on the other side for too much Authority , 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.”

Knows World Way May Hard Seems Sides Liberty Too Much Authority Favors

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.”

Believe Hard I Believe Religious Liberty Tomorrow Speech I Believe In Freedom Of Speech Bill Of Rights Showing Up Religious Liberty

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.”

“We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.”

Way Should Two Hard Done Liberty Treats Sorry Bitter Misfortunes Prisoner Unfortunate Deprived Two Ways

Book:Oz, the Complete Collection Volume 3 bind-up: The Patchwork Girl of Oz; Tik-Tok of Oz; The Scarecrow of Oz

Source: Oz, the Complete Collection Volume 3 bind-up: The Patchwork Girl of Oz; Tik-Tok of Oz; The Scarecrow of Oz

“In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.”

Hard Fighting Liberty Dear Texas Intrusion Personal Liberty

Author:Barack Obama

“Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.”

Thinking Years Littles Hard Seems Dies Liberty Struggle

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.”

People Hard Home Remember Liberty Dangerous Attacking Suppressing

Book:Blacklist

Source: Blacklist

“Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.”

Hard Liberty Dangerous Exciting

Book:Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven

Source: Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven

“There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their conviction that this nation means only to do good, and almost always does good, in the world, that it is the beacon of liberty and freedom.”

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Book:The Historic Unfulfilled Promise

Source: The Historic Unfulfilled Promise

“Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.”

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Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“It's a hard truth for Americans to face, that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most. That is something we are going to have to face. Liberty is for the citizens to guard themselves.”

Hard Faces Liberty Team Citizens Hard Truths

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.”

“I stand as I always have with the Cuban people who love, cherish and celebrate liberty. Hard-working, helpful people who open their hearts and homes to all, whether in Cuba or in exile.”

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Author:Andy Garcia

“The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers were hell-bent to stop government action. The Constitution limited government. And that's why people like Obama and Democrats call it a charter of negative liberties because it limits government. It's an anti-government, pro-citizen document. And the founders wanted to make it hard.”

“Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.”

Ideas Country Hard Happens Individual Responsibility Liberty Sells Individual Liberty

Author:Rush Limbaugh