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The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.
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depriving individuals of the right to choose for themselves how to conduct their intimate relationships poses a far greater threat to the values most deeply rooted in our Nation's history than tolerance of nonconformity could ever do
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I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures
Harry S. Trumanverified·Address Before a Joint Session of Congress (the Truman Doctrine)·March 12, 1947
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If citizens do not like a law, their duty as honest men and women is to discourage its violation; their right is openly to work for its repeal.
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Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
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The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.
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paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell
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This is a glorious region, and the air and life are intoxicating.
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Bad local government is certainly a great evil, which ought to be prevented; but to violate the freedom and sanctities of the suffrage is more than an evil.
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Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.
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There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
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After becoming citizens they are entitled, under the Constitution and laws, to be placed on a perfect equality with native-born citizens, and in this character they should ever be kindly recognized.
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Under our system there is a remedy for all mere political evils in the sound sense and sober judgment of the people.
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Genius is free to announce its inventions and discoveries, and the hand is free to accomplish whatever the head conceives not incompatible with the rights of a fellow-being.
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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.
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The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.
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the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
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The right to dissent peaceably, within the guardrails of our Republic, is perhaps our nation's greatest strength.
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It is their power and majesty that is reflected, and only for their good, in every legitimate government, under whatever form it may appear.
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The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people.
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No body can give more power than he has himself; and he that cannot take away his own life, cannot give another power over it.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
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Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
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Any broader view of this authority would effectively empower a majority to silence dissidents simply as a matter of personal predilections.