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George Washington

letter to the Residents of Boston — 1789
Category: Character
Your love of liberty - your respect for the laws - your habits of industry - and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

letter to John Adams — 1785
Category: Commerce
I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

James Wilson

Of the Study of the Law in the United States — 1790
Category: Education
Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge.

Noah Webster

On Education of Youth in America — 1790
Category: Education
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country.

James Madison

letter to Littleton Dennis Teackle — 1826
Category: Education
The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential to the preservation, and the enjoyment of the blessing.

James Madison

letter to W.T. Barry — 1822
Category: Education
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual & surest support?

Samuel Adams

letter to James Warren — 1775
Category: Education
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

John Adams

letter to Patrick Henry — 1776
Category: Equality
The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.

James Madison

Notes on Nullification
Category: Federalism
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly federal and partly consolidated, and who would convert ours into one either wholly federal or wholly consolidated, in neither of which forms have individual rights, public order, and external safety, been all duly maintained, they aim a deadly blow at the last hope of true liberty on the face of the Earth.

Alexander Hamilton

speech to the New York Ratifying Convention — 1788
Category: Federalism
The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.

John Adams

letter to Abigail Adams — 1775
Category: Liberty
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

An Essay on Man's Lust for Power — 1763
Category: Democracy
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

Alexander Hamilton

Tully, No. 3 — 1794
Category: Government
The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!

Thomas Jefferson

letter to E. Carrington — 1788
Category: Government
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Fisher Ames

speech in the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention — 1788
Category: Democracy
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

Alexander Hamilton

The Farmer Refuted — 1775
Category: Human Nature
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

John Adams

the Novanglus — 1775
Category: Human Nature
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?

James Madison

Federalist No. 51 — 1788
Category: Justice
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

Benjamin Rush

letter to David Ramsay — 1788
Category: Law
[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.

John Adams

A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law — 1765
Category: Liberty
Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.

Oliver Ellsworth

A Landholder, No. III — 1787
Category: Liberty
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good.

Thomas Jefferson

letter to John Adams — 1821
Category: Liberty
I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

Fisher Ames

Essay on Equality — 1801
Category: Liberty
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Benjamin Franklin

letter to Samuel Cooper — 1777
Category: Liberty
[I]t is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

George Washington

letter to James Madison — 1788
Category: Liberty
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

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