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Liberty
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| James Madison (gradual) | I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations |
| Andrew Jackson | As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending. |
| Ronald Reagan (generation away) | Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children a |
| Benjamin Franklin (good gov.) | Freedom of Speech is ever the Symptom, as well as the Effect of a good Government |
| Ronald Reagan | Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged |
| Woodrow Wilson | I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. |
| Ronald Reagan (gov. limited) | I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. Thereâs a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts |
| Samuel Adams | Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual â or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for |
| Benjamin Rush | The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, |
| Andrew Jackson (evils) | There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualifi |
| Elbridge Gerry | Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Ch |
| Harry S. Truman | Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who w |
| John Adams | A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. |
| Andrew Jackson (price) | But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. |
| Thomas Jefferson (inconvenience) | I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. |
| James Madison | Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power |
| George Washington | Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth |
| Thomas Jefferson (democracy) | The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not |
| John Adams (secure liberty) | The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice |
| John Adams (danger) | There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty |
| Thomas Jefferson (preserve) | What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? â¦The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. |
| James Wilson | Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. |
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