Liberty Quotes
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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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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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.
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Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
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Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.
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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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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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Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.
