“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”
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“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.”
“Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?”
“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
“Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.”
“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”