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Freedom is easy to lose

The freemen of America will remember, that it is very easy to change a free government into an arbitrary, despotic, or military one: but it is very difficult, almost impossible to reverse the matter — very difficult to regain freedom once lost.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 16, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories libertyTags Freeman’s Journal

“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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