We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim
that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first
thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
-- Mark Twain
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We have not tried to suppress true, legitimate liberty on the contrary,
we have tried to preserve it. We are for liberty, but liberty with
order, the kind of liberty which will not threaten the basic principles
of our nation, nor threaten its faith and unity....
