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

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

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

“I have sworn upon the altar of god.”

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

“Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”