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• The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence
  which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights....
• The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is always right.
  -- Judge Learned Hand...
• The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
  -- Daniel Webste...
• A Democratic nation, at least when organized to secure the political rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, can be a large and populous nation.
  -- Michael Scully...
• Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843, p. 93...
• Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830, p. 342...
• Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner, May 10, 1847, Vol....
• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe.
  The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword, because the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops....
• Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority.
  It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions....