Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
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