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"It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty."
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"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
"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."
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
"My liberty depends on you being free, too."
"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."
"You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other."
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"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism."
"A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks."
"The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised."
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