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“America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

                                             – Abraham Lincoln 

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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

                                                              – Ronald Reagan

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“None are more hopelessly enslaved
than those who falsely believe they are free.”

                                         – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“If you want total security, go to prison.
There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking… is freedom.”

                                                              – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty
is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people,
and a people strong enough and well enough informed
to maintain its sovereign control over the government.”

                                                            – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“In reading the lives of great men,
I found that the first victory they won
was over themselves.”

                                             – Harry S. Truman

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“Even though the desire for change comes easily,
change itself does not.
Tough decisions are tough to make
and that’s why we cling to belief,
rather than initiate a calculated change.”

                                      – Mark DeWayne Combs

                                         from CLAP (if You Want Tinkerbell to Live)

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