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Liberty Quotes by Jacob G. Hornberger
- If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
- Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a…
- For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives,…
- It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.
- The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that the…
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- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
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- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon
- 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