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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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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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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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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Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.
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In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
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Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?
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[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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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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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
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Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
