Liberty Quotes
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
Ibrahim Babangida -
One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
Sam Brownback
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln -
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Viktor E. Frankl -
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
Abraham Lincoln -
It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
Malala Yousafzai -
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Victoria Woodhull -
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Earl Warren -
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
Frances Wright -
I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
Florence Ellinwood Allen -
You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
Dan Severson -
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
Barbara Amiel
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Barbara Amiel -
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
William Kingdon Clifford -
Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
Victor Hugo -
Where liberty dies, evil grows.
Hamid Karzai -
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
Harriet Tubman -
It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.
Joseph Stalin
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
Rand Paul -
The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
Yves Tanguy -
Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.
Oscar Wilde -
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
Anne Baxter