"A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose……" — Oliver Ellsworth

More Cannot Long Quotes

This quote is filed under Cannot Long Quotes, one of 28 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. — Jean de la Bruyere
• Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke
• Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have… — Karl Marx
• We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry. — Jimmy Carter
• Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity. — Confucius
• Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by… — Jefferson Davis
• One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows… — Emile Durkheim
• There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty… — Joseph Story
• Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude. — Thomas Szasz
• Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable… — Rutherford B. Hayes
• Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not… — Alice Cary
• An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal… — John Hospers

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