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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom o

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. – James Madison

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Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. – James Madison

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The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. – James Madison

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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. – Wole Soyinka

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I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isnt free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community. – Robert M. Gates

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