Liberty Quotes
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Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.
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O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.
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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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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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When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
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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.
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There's small choice in rotten apples.
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Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.
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New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.
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Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!
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When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.
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American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
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I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
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Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatens, quacks, and hustlers.
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Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.
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The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.
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There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
