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Liberty Quotes by John Dickinson
- We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if,…
- Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
- Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and…
- Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but…
- Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It is…
- Some states have lost their liberty, by particular accidents: but this calamity is generally owing to the decay of virtue. A people is travelling fast…
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