William Wells Brown Quotes
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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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.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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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.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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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.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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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.
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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!
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.
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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.
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.
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I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.
