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On the other hand, in a State where the citizens are nearly on an equality, it becomes difficult for them to preserve their independence against the aggressions of power.

the liberty of association is become a necessary guarantee against the tyranny of the majority

The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union.

For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

If he did not want something which is not in his power, how could he be anxious?

To balance probabilities, where life and liberty hang on the result, requires steady nerves.

Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Limited as are the powers which have been granted, still enough have been granted to constitute a despotism if concentrated in one of the departments.

The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.

it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government

with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact

Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters.