Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
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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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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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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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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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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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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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Liberty means more to me than life itself.
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The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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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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Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
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Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.
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I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.
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What am I doing here?
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The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one.
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And nothing says lace like…more lace
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Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
