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- [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw… — Thomas Jefferson
- Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness,… — Clement of Alexandria
- [P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary… — Samuel West
- The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames
- During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged… — Thomas Jefferson
- That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented,… — James Madison
- The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
- There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness — Jonathan Mayhew
- A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or… — Fisher Ames
- The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The… — Noah Webster
- Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion. — George Washington
- History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected… — Benjamin Franklin