Liberty Quotes
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I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear we'll ever lose it because of invasion from the outside. But I do have fear that it may slip away from us because of our own indifference, our own negligence, as citizens of this land. And so I plead with you this morning that you take an active interest in matters pertaining to the future of this country.
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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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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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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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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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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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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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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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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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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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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
