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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)" -Ayn Rand

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" -John Philpot

"Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty" -Calvin Coolidge

"I can say -not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political, and aesthetic roots -that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world" - Ayn Rand

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government" -Patrick Henry

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality" -Ayn Rand

"The US Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government" -Ayn Rand

"Everyone has the right to make his own decision/s, but none has the right to force his decision on others" -Ayn Rand

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself" -Milton Friedman

"Government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem" -Ronald Reagan

"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide" -John Adams

"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off" -Ayn Rand

"A true patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government" -Edward Abbey

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust their people with arms" -James Madison

"Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to handle conflict through peaceful means" -Ronald Reagan

"People should not fear their government. The government should fear its people" -Thomas Jefferson

"Those who give up essential liberty to obtain temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security" -Benjamin Franklin

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%. We need a Republic" -Thomas Jefferson

"Banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies" -Thomas Jefferson

"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" -Thomas Jefferson

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote" -Benjamin Franklin

"The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind" -Thomas Paine

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" -Thomas Jefferson

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed" -Second Amendment

"Those who make paceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" -John F. Kennedy

"God made men but samuel colt made them equal"

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it" -Thomas Jefferson

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves" -William Pitt

"Government is not reason, — it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action" -George Washington

"The answer to 1984 is 1776" -Alex Jones

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace" -George Washington

"I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results" -Thomas Jefferson

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