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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."
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"The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right."

"A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia."

"In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom."

"There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America."

"But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government."
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