They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

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I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference. -- Greta Garbo

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Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. -- Mark Twain

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A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure. -- Stephen King

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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain. ― Thomas Sowell

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If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

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