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  • There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

    'Notes for an Oration at Braintree' (Spring 1772)
  • I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

    John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin
  • The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

    Peace   Freedom   War  
    "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book III, 27,
  • In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

    Power   Men   Liberty  
    The Federalist no. 51 (1788)
  • A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

    First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953
  • Fear is the foundation of most governments.

    'Thoughts on Government' (1776)
  • There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Man is not free unless government is limited.

    Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.
  • What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against women and children are carried out in Europe. What matters is that governments and societies must stop hiding behind a hollow pretense of tolerance so that they can recognize and deal with the problem.

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster
  • If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

    Lying   Angel   Men  
    Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2017). “The Origin of the Nation: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and Other Amendments, Federalist Papers & Common Sense: Creating America - Landmark Documents that Shaped a New Nation”, p.308, Madison & Adams Press
  • I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

    Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.85
  • Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

    Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.82
  • If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

    "Strictly Personal" by W. Somerset Maugham, (ch. 31), 1941.
  • The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  • Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

    Bible   God   Religious  
    John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.229
  • If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

    Adversity   Angel   Men  
    The Federalist no. 51 (1788)
  • What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

    Country   Freedom   Gun  
    Letter toWilliam Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787
  • Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

    Country   Army   Gun  
    Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43
  • I have sworn upon the altar of god.

    Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800
  • A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

    Wise   Wisdom   Men  
    Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

    John Adams (2012). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.76, Simon and Schuster
  • Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

    Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.
  • The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

  • That government is best which governs least.

    Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1
  • One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

    Plato   War   Government  
  • Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

    Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.419, Simon and Schuster
  • I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

    Independent   Men   Law  
    Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.226, Humanix Books
  • History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

    1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.
  • In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.298, Bantam Classics
  • I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

    Change   Religious   Men  
    Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800
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