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"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
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"Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation by the side of the unforgettable Marquis de Lafayette, there would have been no French proclamation of The Rights of Man. Without his brilliant negotiation of the Louisiana treaty, there would be no United States of America. Without Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, there would have been no Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, and no basis for the most precious clause of our most prized element of our imperishable Bill of Rights - the First Amendment to the United States Constitution."
"When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated."
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
"There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself."
"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."
"But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government."
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"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."
"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."
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