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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is read more
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our read more
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only read more
You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or read more
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
