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• o long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrranize will do so
  for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men....
• The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom.
  The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power....
• Those who fought for it know the true taste of freedom!
• Freedom of the press is for those who happen to own one.
• Why do those who speak loudest always have the least to say?
• Those who are afraid of doing too much always do too little.
• The tendency of all strong Governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation.
  -- J. A. Hobson (1858-1940)...