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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.
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We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.
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For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
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I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.
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The Spanish offered me their protection, and liberty to those who would fight for the cause of the kings. I accepted their offers, seeing myself entirely abandoned by my brethren, the French.
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The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.
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Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
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The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
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Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.'
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Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
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Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
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