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"We can afford no liberties with liberty itself."
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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 day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion."
"To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds."
"It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government."
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act."
"When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions."
"The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now."
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
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