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“אלוהים מעניק חירות רק לאוהביה המוכנים לשומרה ולהגן עליה.”
“חירות עכשיו וחירות לעולם.”
“Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.”
“Keep cool; anger is not an argument.”
“We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.”
“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.”
“On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.”
“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.”
“Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.”
“The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.”
“A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.”
“Wisdom begins at the end.”
“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.”
“Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.”
“Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.”
“A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.”
“Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.”
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.”