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It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Security without liberty is called prison.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.