Liberty Quotes
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I have the space and liberty to create.
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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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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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Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit.
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You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!
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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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When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
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Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
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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.
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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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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There's small choice in rotten apples.
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I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
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Today, men and women in uniform ... work so hard on our behalf to protect our freedom (and) our liberty. As they give their best for us, we want to be there for them, ... The good news for returning veterans is that the demand for skilled talent is very strong.
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The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.
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There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
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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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The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.
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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
