Richard Lovelace Quotes
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
Harry Browne
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke
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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
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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!
Patrick Henry
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
Edmund Spenser
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Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
E. B. White
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The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
J. G. Holland
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We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
Pir Vilayat Khan
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.
William Cowper
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Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it.
Vladimir Bukovsky
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...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.
John Stuart Mill
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The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.
John Stuart Mill
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If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
William Jennings Bryan
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The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
Herbert Spencer
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I consciously did away with fade-ins and replaced them with the cut. Henceforth, I never used such editing techniques again. In fact, neither dissolve, fade-in nor fade-out can be regarded as 'the grammar of film,' they are no more than characteristics of the camera.
Yasujirō Ozu
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Myrnin," she said. "He didn't show up at the rendezvous." "And? Dude's crazy, in case you didn't notice recently. He probally went of the chase butterflys or something.
Rachel Caine
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Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.
Richard Lovelace
