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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.
What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the read more
What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect
everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will
preserve it read more
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect
everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will
preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that
force, you are inevitably ruined.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to read more
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
"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
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance.
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to read more
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
