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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright for...

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We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of every...

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may ...

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Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue an...

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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.

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Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be...

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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a con...