- Enslavement
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of their conquerors through the corrupting effect of extended patronage and irresponsible power.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has not lost her liberty or fallen into anarchy, yet we behold the population of England crushed to the earth by the superincumbent weight of debt and taxation, which may one day terminate in revolution.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
- General Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is our country and our home and our families. We can decide that one person's right to bear arms does not come at the expense of a neighbor's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.
- Community Service
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- Nov 07, 2020