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I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality [in Europe] producing so much mis...more

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Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case of all human works. Let us then go on perfecting ...more

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these lib...more

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The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.

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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

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The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.

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A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the li...more

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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of c...more

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.