"Our defense is in the preservation of..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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“To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.”
“The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.”
“The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.”
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“Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing”
“The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.”
“The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.”