Liberty Quotes
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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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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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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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 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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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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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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.
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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered 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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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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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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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 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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
