Liberty Quotes
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.
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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.
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Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.
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You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
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America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.
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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
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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.
