Richard Lovelace Quotes
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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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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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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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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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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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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Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.
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When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation. So some of them stood up and said, liberty or death.
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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
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You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
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In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.
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Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
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The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
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We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
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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.
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Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it.
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For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything chosen about them.
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It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.
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What am I doing here?
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Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.
