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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

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Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

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Book:Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
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“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

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

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Book:God in the Dock
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“Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended.”

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Book:The speeches of Daniel Webster and his master-pieces
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“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.”

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Book:Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
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“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787
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“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”

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Book:Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson
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“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”

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Book:The History of Freedom: Great Event
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“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
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“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

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Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
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