Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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