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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth. ↗

— George Washington

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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. ↗

— George Washington

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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. ↗

— George Washington

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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ↗

— George Washington

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ↗

— George Washington

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For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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