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A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
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Francis Picabia
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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
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Seneca
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Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.
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Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham
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Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
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Edward Gibbon
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Henry David Thoreau
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I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
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Patrick Henry
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I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
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Phaedrus
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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
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Philip Wylie
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It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
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M. Grundler
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It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
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David Hume
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Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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John Adams
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Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
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Daniel Webster
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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Will Rogers
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
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Daniel Webster
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Liberty has no crueler enemy than license.
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French Proverb
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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Liberty is God's gift, liberties the devil s.
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German Proverb
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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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William Allen White
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Charles De Montesquieu
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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James Madison
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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Edmund Burke
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Earl Warren
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License they mean when they cry liberty.
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John Milton
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Old England liberty -- to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.
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Captain J. G. Stedman
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One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
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Frederick Farrar
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Charles De Montesquieu
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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Samuel Gompers
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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
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Seneca
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Thomas Jefferson
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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Otto Herman Kahn
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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Thomas Jefferson
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
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Thomas Jefferson
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The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
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Edmund Burke
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Edmund Burke
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There can be no liberty that isn't earned.
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Robert R. Young
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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Andre Breton
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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Thomas Jefferson
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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James Madison
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Angela Y. Davis
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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Oscar Wilde
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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Benjamin Franklin
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