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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. — Edward Abbey
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are… — Henry Adams
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. — John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. — John Adams
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger… — John Adams
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination… — John Adams
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams
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… — John Adams
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. — John Adams
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four… — John Adams
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little… — Bruce Barton
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. — Bernard Baruch
It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties. — Lance Bass
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed… — Frederic Bastiat
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other… — Frederic Bastiat
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of… — Frederic Bastiat
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. — Samuel Adams
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil… — Samuel Adams
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them… — Samuel Adams
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is… — Samuel Adams
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right… — Samuel Adams
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. — Samuel Adams

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