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Woodrow Wilson

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Woodrow Wilson

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Freedom is achieved when people restrict what the government can do, rather than when the government gains more control. The progress of liberty depends on reducing government authority, not expanding it.

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