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"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our read more
"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams
 Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring
 A Church without a bishop, a State without a read more 
 Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring
 A Church without a bishop, a State without a King. 
The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
England is the mother of parliaments.
England is the mother of parliaments.
 Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever 
debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor read more 
 Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever 
debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, 
decided among men. A resolution was passed without one 
dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right 
ought to be, free and independent States. 
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has read more
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.