- Government
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is about maintaining a framework for ordered liberty so that people can live in the neighborhoods and the communities that they live in.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty and the civic faith of the country was conducive to that. Now they've woken up to a reality in the Obama years that this was a polite fiction.
- Moderation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
- Destruction
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- Nov 07, 2020
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020