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“The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.”

Wisdom Action Politics Liberty Economy Demand Possession Liberalism Possessed Expansion Retention

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953

“The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.”

People Liberty Rights Revolution Mass Independent Dare Conviction Mature Possessed Loving God American Revolution

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.”

Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

“We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates.”

Source: John Adams Speaking: Pound's Sources for the Adams Cantos

“If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government.”

Ifs Real Government Care Politics Interest Liberty Cases Economy Virtue Balance Take Care Liberalism Possessed Multitudes Estates Balance Of Power

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations