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• It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. -- David Hume
• The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with the power to endanger the public liberty.
  -- John Adams (1772)...
• It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
  .. When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force....
• Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
• We may give advice, but we cannot inspire the conduct. (Maxim 378)
• We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost.
  .. the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world....
• We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose. (Maxim 48)
• We are in bondage to the law so that we may be free.
• Reason deceives use often; conscience never. -- Rousseau