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“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
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“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
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“When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
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“A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.”
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“The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.”
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“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
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“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.”
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“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”
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“Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.”
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“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
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“Ignorance and biennial government is dangerous to the preservation of our liberties.”
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“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.’ To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power not longer susceptible of any definition.”
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“I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.”
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“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.” QUOTES ABOUT TRIO BEST FRIENDS
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“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
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“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
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“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.”
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“Speech, less restrictive than anywhere in the world, holds up a mirror to our own nature for good and for evil.”
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“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.”
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“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual.”
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“The will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, but that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect and to violate would be oppression.”
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“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
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“Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”
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“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
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“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
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“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
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“The most effectual means of preventing tyranny of the government is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large.”