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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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“In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to Congress by the Constitution.”

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Author:Wright Patman
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“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”

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Book:My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi
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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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“I have sworn upon the altar of god.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“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!”

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Author:Patrick Henry
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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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“For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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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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“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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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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“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson
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“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

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Author:Lord Acton
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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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“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.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln
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