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“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws”
Voltaire Quotes |
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“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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“"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams”
Sam Adams Quotes |
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“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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“Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty”
Aristotle Quotes |
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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.”
Clarence Darrow Quotes |
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“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: inscription on the Liberty Bell from Bibles's Leviticus 25:10
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“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act II, sc. 1)
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“The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of
tyrants.
[Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ne croit qu'arrose par le sang des
tyrans.]”
Bertrand Barere Quotes Source: Speech in the Convention Nationale
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“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is liberty.”
Bible Quotes Source: II Corinthians (ch. III, v. 17)
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“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is
the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and
madness, without tuition or restraint.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Speech at a County Meeting at Bucks
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“My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Speech on the Conciliation of America (vol. II, p. 118)
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“Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: Bruce to His Men at Bannockburn
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“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
For there thy habitation is the heart--
The heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd--
To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom,
Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Sonnet--Introductory to Prisoner of Chillon
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“When Liberty from Greece withdrew,
And o'er the Adriatic flew,
To where the Tiber pours his urn,
She struck the rude Tarpeian rock;
Sparks were kindled by the shock--
Again thy fires began to burn.”
Henry Francis Cary Quotes Source: Power of Eloquence
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“Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love,
O liberty! my spirit felt thee there.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: France--An Ode (V)
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“If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone
or brass, it will beat them down.”
John Cotton Quotes Source: Limitations of Government, in Perry Miller's "The American Puritans" (1956)
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“'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. V, l. 446)
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“Then liberty, like day,
Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven
Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. V, l. 882)
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“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
John Philpot Curran Quotes Source: Speech, Dublin
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