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An armed disciplined body is, in its essence, dangerous to liberty; undisciplined, it is ruinous to society.
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Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression.
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When legislation touches freedom of thought and freedom of speech, such a tendency is a formidable enemy of the free spirit.
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Finally we must have courage and self-confidence to cling to our own methods and conceptions of human society. After all, the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet communism, is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping.
George F. Kennanverified·Telegram from the Chargé in the Soviet Union to the Secretary of State (the Long Telegram)·February 22, 1946
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At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life.
Harry S. Trumanverified·Address before a Joint Session of Congress (the Truman Doctrine)·March 12, 1947
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty.
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In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
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Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.
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It is in periods like this that it behooves the people to be most watchful of those to whom they have intrusted power.
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Otherwise, free speech which is the strength of the Nation will be the cause of its destruction.