A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

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Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

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When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

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There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

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When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

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The Bible makes the best people in the world.

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Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

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To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

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Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

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