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Liberty Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.
- We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
- Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last,…
- Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.
- ...[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty...
- Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk…
- [If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole…
- Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.
- No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
- Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least…
- No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and…
- The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has…
- That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and…
- Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable…
- Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign…
- It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never…
- The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their origin…
- The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep…
- Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can…
- Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and…
- The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.
- The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being…
- ...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at…
- The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the…
- There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether…
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- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton