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Preserving freedom

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 27, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories libertyTags Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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