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Alexander Hamilton

Federalist No. 26
Category: National Defense

The idea of restraining the legislative authority in the means of providing for the national defense is one of those refinements which owe their origin to a zeal for liberty more ardent than enlightened.

Benjamin Franklin

writing as Silence Dogood, No. 8 — 1722
Category: The Press

Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.

The Virginia Bill of Rights — 1776
Category: Rights

That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.

George Washington

to the Annual meeting of Quakers — 1789
Category: Religious Liberty

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreeably to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist No. 1 — 1787
Category: Tyranny

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.

James Madison

on Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Nicholas P. Trist — 1826
Category: Founders on Founders

[He] will live in the memory and gratitude of the wise & good, as a luminary of Science, as a votary of liberty, as a model of patriotism, and as a benefactor of human kind.

George Washington

General Orders — 1776
Category: Patriotism

The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.

Declaration of Independence — 1776
Category: Rights

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness: that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Thomas Paine

Rights of Man — 1791
Category: Truth

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Jefferson

letter to Archibald Stewart — 1791
Category: Liberty

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Paine

Dissertation on First Principles of Government — 1791
Category: Liberty

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Patrick Henry

speech in the Virginia Convention — 1775
Category: Truth

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth - and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

George Washington

Farewell Address — 1796
Category: Liberty

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

James Madison

Federalist No. 10 — 1787
Category: Opinion

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other.

George Washington

Circular to the States — 1753
Category: Power

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

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