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<\/a><\/p>\n“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”<\/p>\n
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”<\/p>\n
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”<\/p>\n
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”<\/p>\n
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”<\/p>\n
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”<\/p>\n
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”<\/p>\n
“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”<\/p>\n
“One man with courage is a majority.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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