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Quote from Fisher Ames,


"Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent."


By:

Fisher Ames (more quotes by Fisher Ames or books by/about Fisher Ames)


(1758-1808), American statesman, orator and political writer

Source:

Essay on Equality, December 15, 1801

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Liberty

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