Liberty Quotes
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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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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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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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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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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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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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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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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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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Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
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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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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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Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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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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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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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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Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.
