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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

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You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.

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Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!

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If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

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Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

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Liberty and equality are magical words.

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Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

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I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

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Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty

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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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When liberty returns, I will return.

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Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

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TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

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