#libert

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. ↗

— James Madison

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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. ↗

— James Madison

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Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. ↗

— James Madison

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National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. ↗

— Theresa May

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Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#freedom #let us #liberty #our #prize

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#licentiousness #men #strike #term #under

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out? ↗

— Mitch McConnell

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The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working. ↗

— James McGreevey

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An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#certitude #entail #evidence #faith #free