The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.
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.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
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