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Freedom
- The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to
destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.
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-- Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819...
- Rightful liberty is unobstructed action, according to our will,
within limits
drawn around us by the equal rights of...
- Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government
of himself.
Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others...
- A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring
one another,
which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their...
- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania...
- Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the
government's purposes are beneficient.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in
insidious encroachment...
- Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the
pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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Barry Goldwater (actually written by Karl...
- I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing,
and as
necessary in the political world as storms...
- This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government...
- No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound
to enforce it.
16 Am. Jur. Sec. 177 late 2d, Sec...
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