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Woven into the fabric of time, silence harbors the echoes of stories untold, pulling passionate seekers toward its depths, turning stillness into a map of mysteries.
Author:
Anail Alkest
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To reshape memories is to chisel away at the very foundation of divine authenticity within ourselves, risking our moral and spiritual essence.
Author:
Morgan Li
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Let your uniqueness shine brighter than any conformity, for in being true to yourself lies your ultimate freedom.
Author:
Jenna Ellis
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The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it.
Author:
Leopold Zunz
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Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Author:
Lin Yutang
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I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.
Author:
Don Young
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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Author:
Philip Wylie
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Author:
Frank Wright
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But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
Author:
Francis Wright
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
Author:
Francis Wright
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
Author:
Frances Wright
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
Author:
Frances Wright
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Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.
Author:
Henry Wise
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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.
Author:
John Winthrop
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Author:
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.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
Author:
James Wilson
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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
Author:
Robin Williams
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
Author:
William White
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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Author:
George Washington
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Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
Author:
George Washington
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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
Author:
George Washington
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
Author:
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.
Author:
George Washington
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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
Author:
Earl Warren
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Author:
Earl Warren
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The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America.
Author:
Jim Walsh
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If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
Author:
Robert Walpole
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I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
Author:
Benjamin Wade
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Liberty is worth paying for.
Author:
Jules Verne
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I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
Author:
Jeff Vandermeer
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To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
Author:
Harriet Tubman
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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
Author:
Harriet Tubman
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Author:
Harriet Tubman
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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
Author:
Robert Trout
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
Author:
John Tillotson
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For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.
Author:
Todd Tiahrt
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I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
Author:
John Thune
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Author:
Dorothy Thompson
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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
Author:
Dorothy Thompson
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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Author:
Dylan Thomas
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There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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Too much liberty corrupts us all.
Author:
Terence
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We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
Author:
Terence
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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
Author:
Tecumseh
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The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
Author:
Yves Tanguy
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If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.
Author:
James Talent
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Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
Author:
Algernon Sydney
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This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
Author:
Algernon Sydney
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The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
Author:
Algernon Sydney
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Personal liberty is not personal license.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
Author:
William Sumner
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It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.
Author:
Josiah Strong
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Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.
Author:
Josiah Strong
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The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
Author:
Max Stirner
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It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
Author:
Potter Stewart
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If the evens of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.
Author:
Jon Stewart
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
Author:
Lysander Spooner
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
Author:
Edmund Spenser
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
Author:
Tony Snow
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
Author:
Tony Snow
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Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
Author:
Tony Snow
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They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.
Author:
Lorenzo Snow
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Author:
Ignazio Silone
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Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
Author:
Algernon Sidney
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If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Author:
Algernon Sidney
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Author:
George Shaw
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If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
Author:
Anna Shaw
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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
Author:
William Scott
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It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
Author:
Charles Schumer
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The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.
Author:
Samuel Schmid
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When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
Author:
George Savile
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
Author:
George Santayana
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Author:
Sallust
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Author:
Sallust
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.
Author:
Gabriela Sabatini
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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
Author:
Benjamin Rush
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Author:
Will Rogers
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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 liberty.
Author:
Henry Robert
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While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
Author:
Jose Rizal
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Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.
Author:
Tom Ridge
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The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
Author:
Ernest Renan
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.
Author:
Michael Reagan
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A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
Author:
Nick Rahall
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America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.
Author:
Nick Rahall
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If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.
Author:
Richard Price
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Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
Author:
David Price
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Socialism values equality more than liberty.
Author:
Dennis Prager
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For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
Author:
John Polanyi
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Author:
Plato
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Author:
Plato
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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
Author:
Albert Pike
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A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Author:
Francis Picabia
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Author:
Wendell Phillips
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Author:
Wendell Phillips
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I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
Author:
Phaedrus
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In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.
Author:
Richard Perle
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We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.
Author:
Mike Pence
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History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
Author:
Timothy Pawlenty
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There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
Author:
Ron Paul
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Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
Author:
Ron Paul
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The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Author:
Ron Paul
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The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Author:
Ron Paul
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There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Author:
Ron Paul
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Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Author:
Ron Paul
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Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Author:
Ron Paul
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Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
Author:
Alice Paul
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Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.
Author:
Paul Parker
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Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
Author:
Tom Palmer
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Author:
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.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
Author:
James Otis
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It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
Author:
James Otis
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Author:
George Orwell
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
Author:
George Orwell
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Author:
Sandra O'Connor
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Author:
Barack Obama
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The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.
Author:
Michael Novak
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Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
Author:
Michael Novak
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The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Author:
Lyn Nofziger
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Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
Author:
Ben Nelson
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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
Author:
Benito Mussolini
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Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.
Author:
Timothy Murphy
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As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home.
Author:
Tim Murphy
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The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
Author:
John Motley
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
Author:
Frederica Montseny
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
Author:
Charles Montesquieu
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But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
Author:
Eugenio Montale
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
Author:
Mary Montagu
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Give me liberty or a bran muffin!
Author:
Colin Mochrie
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Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!
Author:
Colin Mochrie
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Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Author:
Ho Minh
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Author:
John Milton
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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Author:
John Milton
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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
Author:
John Mill
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There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.
Author:
Henry Middleton
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Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
Author:
Antonio Mendoza
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
Author:
H. Mencken
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
Author:
H. Mencken
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In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
Author:
Philipp Melanchthon
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It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.
Author:
Thomas Meagher
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Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
Author:
Mary McCarthy
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Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.
Author:
John McCain
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Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Author:
Jose Marti
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It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
Author:
Jose Marti
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The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
Author:
Jose Marti
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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
Author:
Jose Marti
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Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Author:
Jose Marti
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
Author:
James Madison
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Author:
James Madison
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
Author:
James Madison
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
Author:
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 mutual and surest support?
Author:
James Madison
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Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Author:
James Madison
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
Author:
James Madison
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
Author:
James Madison
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
Author:
James Madison
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The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
Author:
James Madison
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
Author:
James Madison
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We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
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Archibald MacLeish
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From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.
Author:
Seth Low
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If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
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Richard Lovelace
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Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
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Henry Lodge
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Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
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Henry Lodge
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Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
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Henry Lodge
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The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.
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John Linder
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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Abraham Lincoln
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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Abraham Lincoln
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So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.
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Rush Limbaugh
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And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.
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Daniel Libeskind
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We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
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Aldo Leopold
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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
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Jay Leno
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Vladimir Lenin
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To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.
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Richard Lee
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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David Lawrence
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I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.
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Charles Lawrence
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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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Wilfrid Laurier
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Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
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James Larkin
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Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
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Marquis Lafayette
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But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.
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William Kunstler
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What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.
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Fritz Kreisler
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A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.
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Horst Koehler
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Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.
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Henry Knox
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Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
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Henry Knox
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Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
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Krzysztof Kieslowski
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In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
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Aly Khan
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Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
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Ellen Key
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In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
Author:
Patrick 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 to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
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John Kennedy
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In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
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Arthur Keith
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In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
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Arthur Keith
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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
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Arthur Keith
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Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
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Denis Kearney
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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Hamid Karzai
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Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.
Author:
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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Otto Kahn
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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Otto Kahn
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Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
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Franz Kafka
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The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
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Junius
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Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
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Mordecai Johnson
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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Lyndon Johnson
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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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Gary Johnson
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At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.
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Allen Johnson
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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Thomas Jefferson
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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
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Thomas Jefferson
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
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Thomas Jefferson
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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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Thomas Jefferson
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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
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Thomas Jefferson
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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
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Thomas Jefferson
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Thomas Jefferson
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
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Thomas Jefferson
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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Thomas Jefferson
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In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
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Bianca Jagger
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We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.
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Robert Jackson
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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
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Andrew Jackson
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There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
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Andrew Jackson
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I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
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Andrew Jackson
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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
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Andrew Jackson
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How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
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Burl Ives
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Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
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Joichi Ito
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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Muhammad Iqbal
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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
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Robert Ingersoll
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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
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Robert Ingersoll
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One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
Author:
Henrik Ibsen
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Aldous Huxley
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We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.
Author:
Kay Hutchison
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In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.
Author:
Claudio Hummes
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It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
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David Hume
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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Victor Hugo
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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Victor Hugo
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We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
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Charles Hughes
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While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
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Charles Hughes
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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
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William Howells
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Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?
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Joseph Howe
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
Author:
Samuel Hopkins
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I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.
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Bob Hope
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
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Thomas Hood
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
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Thomas Hobbes
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Author:
Hermann Hesse
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Author:
Frank Herbert
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Author:
Patrick Henry
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Give me liberty or give me death.
Author:
Patrick Henry
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I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Author:
Patrick Henry
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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Patrick Henry
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When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
Author:
Georg Hegel
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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William Hazlitt
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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Friedrich Hayek
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I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security.
Author:
Michael Hayden
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As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.
Author:
Doc Hastings
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Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.
Author:
Paul Harris
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While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.
Author:
Paul Harris
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
Author:
Hanoi Hannah
