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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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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
- Nothing
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
- Law
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In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
- Constitutions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
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This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
- May
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
- Nature
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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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- Nov 07, 2020