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"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
"The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is man. Rights are conditions of existence required by man's nature for his proper survival. If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his values and to keep the product for his work. If life on earth is his purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being: nature forbids him the irrational."
"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."
"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties."
"My liberty depends on you being free, too."
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"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."
"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
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