Liberty Quotes
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In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
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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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In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
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Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
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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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O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.
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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...
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I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
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Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.
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Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
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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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No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
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To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do something with one's own without interference by the king or any other man.
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We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.
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Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.
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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.
