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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 (1732-1799)...
• The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered.
  .. deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people....
• The citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy--a policy worthy of imitation.
  All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship....
• And to the liberty for which it stands, one nation, under God, with freedom and justice for all.
  ' And let's never forget it. -- George Bush, mangling the Pledge of Allegiance...
• I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation has a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of anothe
  hat every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under them- selve...
• Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
• Wisdom is that particular quality which enables you to avoid any and all of those situations which call for its judicious use.
• Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
  They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence....