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• It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the…
• Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on…
• How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty…
• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his…
• Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together…
• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will…
• We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
• The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.
• The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from…
• There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.

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