America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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--Abraham Lincoln
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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--Abraham Lincoln
"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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--Abraham Lincoln
"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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--Abraham Lincoln
"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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--Abraham Lincoln
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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--Abraham Lincoln
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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--Abraham Lincoln
"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
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--George Washington
"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
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--George Washington
"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
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--George Washington
"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
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--George Washington
"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
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--George Washington
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
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--Thomas Jefferson
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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--Thomas Jefferson
"Every generation needs a new revolution.
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--Thomas Jefferson
"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
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--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.
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--Thomas Jefferson
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
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--Thomas Jefferson
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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--Thomas Jefferson
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
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--Thomas Jefferson
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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--Thomas Jefferson
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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--Thomas Jefferson
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
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--Thomas Jefferson
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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--Thomas Jefferson
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
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--Thomas Jefferson
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"
--Patrick Henry
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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--Patrick Henry
"The great object is that every man be armed.
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--Patrick Henry
"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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--Theodore Roosevelt
"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.
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--Theodore Roosevelt
