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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1890 AD · industrial
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- Woodrow Wilson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1890 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1856 to 1924; Wikidata Q34296, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34296 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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