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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…
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on…
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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty…
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his…
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together…
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will…
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
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The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.
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The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from…
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There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
— Angela Merici
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Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
— Emile M. Cioran
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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we…
— Virginia Woolf
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Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.
— Unknown Author
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I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not…
— Edmund Burke
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In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal…
— Samuel Adams
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Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all…
— P.D. James
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