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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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Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.
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If the events 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.
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Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
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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.
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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.
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Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.
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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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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.
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
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