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1. "Men qualify for freedom in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power is put somewhere on will and appetite, and the less of it there is within, the more their must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
2. "Liberty is a boisterous sea. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism."
3. "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."
4. "When you have robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power. He is free again."
5. "God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
6. "There are two freedoms: the false where a man is free to do what he likes; and the true where a man is free to do as he ought."
7. "A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all."
