Quotes on liberty
Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?
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Francis Wright Quotes
We are fighting in the quarrel of civilization against barbarism, of liberty against tyranny. Germany has become a menace to the whole world. She is the most dangerous enemy of liberty now existing.
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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
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Dick Cheney Quotes
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political.
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Ignazio Silone Quotes
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
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Daniel Webster Quotes
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.
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Agesilaus Quotes
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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D.H. Lawrence Quotes
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
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Henri Amiel Quotes
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Baron de Montesquieu Quotes
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Edmund Burke Quotes
Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
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Christopher Dodd Quotes