.:|:. Dove Love’s .:. Points and Passions .:|:.

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“We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.” ~ William Reece Smith, Jr.

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“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.” ~ Pericles

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“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. ~ Thomas Brackett Reed

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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long. ~ Thomas Sowell

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“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.” ~ Elizabeth Cody Stanton

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“The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.” ~ Cornelius Tacitus

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“There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.” ~ James Madison

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“We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

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“Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn’t stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband — it creeps up insidiously… step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that it is gone.” ~ Baron Lane

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“You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.” ~ Lyndon Johnson

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“Freedom can not be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little value.” ~ Lucius Seneca - Epistolae Morales (c. 60 A.D.)

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“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.” ~ Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

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“It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

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“Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.” ~ Edmund Burke - (British statesman - 1756)

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“There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

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“The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights.” ~ Erwin Griswold - (Dean, Harvard Law School - 1960)