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“That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.”
Benjamin Disraeli quotes (British Prime Minister and Novelist. 1804-1881)

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“A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.”
Lyndon B. Johnson quotes (American 36th US President (1963-69). 1908-1973)
About: Freedom quotes, America and Americans quotes, Constitution quotes.
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“A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.”
William Orville Douglas quotes

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“Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure that he is seldom promoted because he has been jealous of the liberties of the citizen”
Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
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“Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity”
Edmund Burke quotes (British Statesman and Philosopher, 1729-1797)
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“America is committed to seeing civil liberties protected as a shield for freedom-loving people, not as a sword for freedom-loathing people.”
John Ashcroft quotes (U.S. politician and attorney general, b.1942)

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“Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.”
Wendell L. Willkie quotes (American Republican presidential candidate in 1940, 1892-1944)

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“If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens little if at all inferior to them in discipline and”
Alexander Hamilton quotes (American political Thinker, Statesman, Lawyer, Soldier and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States (1789-95), 1757-1804)
About: Government quotes, Circumstances quotes.
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“One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.”
Susan Sontag quotes (American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004)
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“Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.”
John Quincy Adams quotes (American 6th US President (1825-29), eldest son of John Adams, 2nd US president. 1767-1848)

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