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• The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the pre
  for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole....
• It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. -- David Hume
• Liberty has never yet lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
  With the change of our government, our manners and sentiments will change....
• Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
  -- Rousseau...
• Our liberty depends upon the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), in 1786...
• Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood.
  The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty....
• The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood
  the person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty....
• We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
  -- Mark Twai...