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| Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. (Alan Dean Foster) |
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| People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. (Soren Kierkegaard) |
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| They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Benjamin Franklin Historical Review of Pennsylvania 1759) |
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| My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. (Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.) |
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| It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. (Mark Twain Following the Equator) |
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| You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. (Malcolm X Malcolm X Speaks 1965) |
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| Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. (Malcolm X Malcolm X Speaks 1965) |
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| The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (William Hazlitt) |
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| Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. (Patricia Sampson) |
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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. (Carl Schurz) |
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| Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice. (Anonymous) |
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| It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. (M. Grundler) |
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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. (Henry M. Robert) |
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| They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Benjamin Franklin) |
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| Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. (Justice Louis D. Brandeis dissenting Olmstead v. United States 277 US 479) |
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| It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. (David Hume) |
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| The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. (Abraham Lincoln) |
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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. (John Peter Zenger) |
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| Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. (Rousseau) |
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| A library is an arsenal of liberty. (Unknown) |
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| Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. (Learned Hand) |
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What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty. (Spenser) |
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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 First Inaugural Address Apr. 30 1789) |
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