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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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- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.
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- Nov 07, 2020
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
- Judges
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am running for the U.S. Senate so that your kids and mine can continue to live in the kind of country that gave my family the blessings of liberty and freedom that only America offers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
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- Nov 07, 2020