- Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty Quotes
Freedom is never fully settled.
A recurring warning runs through this page - that stripping freedom from people we oppose puts everyone's freedom at risk, since the same power can later be turned against those we love. Related reading continues in Freedom.
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- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
- Fiscally
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
- Act
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- Nov 07, 2020
NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020