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Quote by Thomas Paine
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his ene

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. – Thomas Paine

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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. – Thomas Paine

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Freedom
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Thomas Paine
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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. – Thomas Paine

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Peace
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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. – Thomas Paine

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Death
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Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. – Louis D. Brandeis

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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. – William Faulkner

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Independence Day

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Independence Day

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. – Author Unknown

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. – Winston Churchill

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