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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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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
- Freedom
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
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Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?
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Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
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Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.
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Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
- Faith
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Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty.
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Rather than seeking to stem the tide, our educators, politicians, and judges aid the advance of godlessness. This cannot continue if our children and grandchildren are to live in a country that still recognises God and upholds religious liberty.
- Freedom
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
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But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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