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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…
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Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority…
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The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.
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[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating…
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The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
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Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in…
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We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we…
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.
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I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about…
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I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
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Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks…
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Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,…
— Edmund Burke
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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
— Edmund Burke
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If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
— George Stillman Hillard
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They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,…
— Edmund Burke
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The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,…
— William E. Simon
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Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is…
— Alan Valentine
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There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long…
— Joseph Story
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There can be no liberty without the law
— Cecil B. DeMille
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We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of…
— Nhat Hanh
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There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.
— Cass Sunstein
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Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
— Henry Highland Garnet
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