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Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

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Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we have not, our fathers have e...more

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Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not,...more

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There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. ...more

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Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

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A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but ...more

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

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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.

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I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which...more

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.