Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

La tyrannie est toujours mieux organisée que la liberté.

Charles Peguy

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Peguy, Charles. Basic Verities: Prose and Poetry, translated by Ann and Julian Green. Pantheon Books, 1943.

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I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

Harry Truman

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Truman, Harry S. Address about establishing the Truman Doctrine. Joint session of Congress. 12 Mar. 1947, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.

Alexander Hamilton

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Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 1: General Introduction." Independent Journal, 27 Oct. 1787.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. I: Deliberation on a new constitution--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials, and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.

Robert H. Jackson

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Jackson, Robert H. United States, Supreme Court. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. United States Reports, vol. 319, 14 June 1943, pp. 624-671. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/319/624/.

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Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.

Masculin Féminin

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Masculin Féminin [Masculine Feminine]. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Anouchka Films-Argos Films/Sandrews-Svenskfilmindustri, 1966.

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