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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it: Woodrow Wilson

=The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same: Marie Beyle

=The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing: John Adams

=To change masters is not to be free: Jose Marti y Perez

=If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?: Herbert Spencer.

=Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction: Blaise Pascal