Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
Too much liberty corrupts us all.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
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