Liberty Quotes
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Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth.
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You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.
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Preposterous to say that to punish a certain act was not an abridgement of the liberty of doing that act.
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The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
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If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a man's money you will be sent to the penitentiary. If you steal his liberty you will be sent to the White House.
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Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.
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Liberty is always unfinished business...
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The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.
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Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
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The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.
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You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
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You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
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Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!
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There's small choice in rotten apples.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
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Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror...
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Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
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A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.
