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












Give me liberty or give me death.".]
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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...
"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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"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...
"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.
"Give me liberty or give me death.
"Give me liberty or give me death.
"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.
"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...
"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...