Liberty Quotes
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish 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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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.
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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.
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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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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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Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
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All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.
