The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” Thomas Jefferson – letter to E. Carrington, May 27, 1788
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“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.” Samuel Adams
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“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” Thomas Paine
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“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.” Mahatma Gandhi – Gandhi, An Autobiography
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“Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty” Samuel Adams
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“to disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them” George Mason
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“History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and…
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“As neither reason requires nor religion permits the contrary, every man living in or out of a state of civil society has a right peaceably and quietly to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.” Samuel Adams –…
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke – British statesman – 1756
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“Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever…
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“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Mark Twain – 1894
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“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” Bertrand Russell
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“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.” Samuel Adams
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“The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-by to the Bill of Rights.” H.L. Mencken