- Nov 07, 2020
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- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.
- Courted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment and were too much afraid of losing their roosts to leave them for such a cause.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Diminishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
- Commencement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long before the commencement of any investigation or official proceeding.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The central genius of the American Constitution lies in its use of structure to protect individual liberty. It does not rely solely, or even primarily, on grants of substantive rights.
- Dictatorship
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- Nov 07, 2020
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.
- Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through your individual leadership, millions of gun owners across the nation made their voices heard sending an unmistakable message: stop President Barack Obama's destruction of our liberty and restore our Constitution.
- Tree
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we do not elect a national legislature that will hold Obama accountable, he and his radical cohorts will destroy the tree of liberty. Just mark my words.
- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, the legacy that President Obama's agenda will leave on history is the poisoning of the tree of liberty.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, among the world's richest men, believes his personal fortune can erase the liberty of every American who would exercise the right to keep and bear arms. He plans liquidation of our rights a step-at-a-time - spending millions of dollars of his bottomless personal fortune at a time.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bloomberg's money and media access are a serious danger to American liberty and we must take him head on.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bloomberg believes his money can buy anything - even the liberty of individual Americans. After all, his personal fortune bought him public office.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The National Rifle Association - all that we believe in and fight for - has become a metaphor for the core American liberty we all want preserved.
- Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
- Precious
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Spanish offered me their protection, and liberty to those who would fight for the cause of the kings. I accepted their offers, seeing myself entirely abandoned by my brethren, the French.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Want
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values.
- Nov 07, 2020
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
- Nov 07, 2020
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
- Expect
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in 2010, it didn't matter when it was only Cuban democrats, Zimbabwean dissidents, Afghan reformists and Russian bloggers whose lives and liberty were put at risk by Wikileaks' wilfully negligent data dumps.
- Nov 07, 2020
Too much liberty corrupts us all.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent my entire career advocating for free-market economic policies, trying to convince the leaders of this country that unnecessary government interference in the market-place - and let's face it, most government is totally unnecessary - destroys liberty and inhibits prosperity.
- Every American
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Fifth Amendment speaks specifically to denying someone their life and liberty without due process. That is what H.R. 2 does, and I rise in opposition to it. And I rise in opposition because it is important that we preserve lives and we recognize that 40 million-plus are uninsured.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
- Forfeit
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
- Colonists
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a Winslow Homer or a Renoir, but I do have the liberty to live as I like.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I launched Imperia at the Statue of Liberty because I wanted to use something symbolic. I like American society because it always wants to do something new and better.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020