William Wells Brown Quotes
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke -
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry -
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Viktor E. Frankl -
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.
Ted Nugent -
I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
Larry Speakes -
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
Harry Browne -
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke -
I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov -
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
Samuel Hopkins -
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Babasaheb
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
Ted Cruz -
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry -
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
Frances Wright -
I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.
Sam Hunt -
If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
Gary Hume -
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Otto Hermann Kahn
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The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
Nick Rahall -
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
Chuck Klosterman -
It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.
John Marston -
I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.
William Wells Brown