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"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
"The people should have the power to make their own decisions."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"The government is us; we are the government, you and I."
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
"All men are created equal."
"Democracy is not a spectator sport."
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"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
"The most important thing is to look ahead. The past is a wasted life."
"The power of the people is stronger than the people in power."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"I am not a number. I am a free man!"
"We are all citizens of the world."
"First, do no harm."
"A society that has lost the perception of evil is a society that has lost its morals."
"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
"Man is the measure of all things."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"Governments can’t control the tide of history."
"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
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"It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is how we use what we have."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
"We must become the change we wish to see in the world."
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic."
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
"Whenever there is a king, there is also slavery."
"It is against my principles to be king."
"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."
"Royalty is but a gilded cage."
"A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quiet's sake."
"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
"I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity."
"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."
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"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance"
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master."
"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
"Resistance to tyranny is service to God."
"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."
"When the throne is vacant, then we can say what should be; when it is occupied, we can say nothing."
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
"The voice of the people is the voice of God."
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
"The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy."
"The ultimate authority resides in the people."
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power."
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
"Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants."
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive."
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
"The only title I want is that of citizen."
"Every citizen is a king in his own country."
"I am as desirous of being the lowest and most unnoticed, as the King is of being the highest and most conspicuous."
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
"The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive."
"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
"A monarch's greatest praise consists in deserving praise."
"The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history."
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"It is better to resist injustice than to be an accomplice to it."
"It is our duty to pay the bill, but it is not our duty to furnish the money."
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
"Peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of justice."
"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
"The history of all countries shows that the efficiency of a government declines as it increases in size and scope."
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
"All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
"The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government."
"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind."
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived."
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."
"Democracy is not merely a form of government; it is primarily a pattern of communal living."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."
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