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"Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it."
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"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."
"What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity."
"The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman."
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
"It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you."
"Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-."
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
"With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty."
"I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street."
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
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"If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that."
"Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal."
"Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures."
"You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic."
"Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant."
"The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question."
"In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny."
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