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John Adams
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geograhy, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give thei
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Patrick Henry
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It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the f
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Barry Goldwater
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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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Herbert Hoover
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Thus the scene of the tragedy of Liberty world over must be suffering and discontent among the people. The drama moves swiftly in a torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; idealism without realism; slogans, phrases
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
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George Bernard Shaw
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(Recalling the atmosphere at what he called the ceremonial birth of South African democracy.)
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Nelson Mandela
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We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.
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William Reece Smith, Jr.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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William Ross Wallace
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General Stark sent this toast to be read at the reunion, he was too ill to attend; Live Free or Die became the New Hampshire State Motto in 1945
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Nadia Boulanger
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
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Deane Jordan
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The Statue of Liberty is not that monument's name. It is Liberty Enlightening the World.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
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Jeanne-Marie Roland
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O Liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name
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George Washington
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
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Herbert Spencer
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making
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Louis D. Brandeis
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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John F. Kennedy
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Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
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Jeseph Joubert
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Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty
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BURNS: _Bannockburn._
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Liberty 's in every blow! Let us do or die.
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Dante Alighieri
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act
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Marquis de Lafayette
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Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
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Sallust
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Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.
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Mark Twain
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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.
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Kahlil Gibran
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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Douglas MacArthur
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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William Allen White
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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 7.
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I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please.
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MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 36.
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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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John Adams
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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William Reece Smith, Jr.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Edmund Spenser
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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Miguel de Cervantes
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Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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Edmund Burke
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Clarence Darrow
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
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Daniel Webster
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Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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Carl Schurz
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If you want to be free, there is but one way it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
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Judge Gideon J. Tucker
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No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
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Charles Evans Hughes
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While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
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Barry Goldwater
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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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Barry Goldwater
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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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Sandra Day O'Connor
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
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COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. v., Line 882.
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Liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
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Kathleen Norris
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In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
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Samuel Adams
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
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James Madison
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their natural and surest support.
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Bruce Barton
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
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Woodrow Wilson
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy
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Senator William Grayson
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Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...
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Emma Lazarus
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Engrved on Statue of Liberty
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Thomas Paine
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He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
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Henri Frdric Amiel
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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
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Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
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A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
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The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
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No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
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Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation o
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
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Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.
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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
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Too much liberty corrupts us all.
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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
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To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
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A library is an arsenal of liberty.
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It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
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I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
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Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
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The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
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The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.
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A husband is a man who lost his liberty in pursuit of happiness.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.
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Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
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What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
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God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.
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Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.
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He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
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