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| That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth |
| Edmund Burke |
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| The basis of a democratic state is liberty. |
| Aristotle |
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| The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty |
| Adlai E. Stevenson |
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| The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction |
| Douglas MacArthur |
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| The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse |
| Jules Renard |
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| The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. |
| George Washington |
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| The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. |
| Thomas Hobbes |
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| The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force |
| Voltaire |
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| The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts |
| Edmund Burke |
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