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“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance.”
John Philpot Curran Quotes Source: Speech
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“To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that
peoples our forests with assassins.
[Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une
absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]”
John Philpot Curran Quotes Source: Speech
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“The love of liberty with life is given,
And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Palamon and Arcite (bk. II, l. 291)
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“The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of
industry and economy.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes Source: in correspondence
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“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes Source: motto to Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes Source: motto to Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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“Give me liberty, or give me death.”
Patrick Henry Quotes Source: in a speech
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“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect
everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will
preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that
force, you are inevitably ruined.”
Patrick Henry Quotes Source: in a speech
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“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes Source: Summary View of the Rights of British America
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“As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its
friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has
once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective
helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.”
Otto Hermann Kahn Quotes Source: Speech at the University of Wisconsin
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“I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.”
Phaedrus Quotes |
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“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.”
Louis D. Brandeis Quotes |
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“I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.”
Harriet Tubman Quotes |
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“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”
Marcus T. Cicero Quotes |
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“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
John Adams Quotes |
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“One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.”
Frederick Farrar Quotes |
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“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
John Milton Quotes |
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“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.”
Patrick Henry Quotes |
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“For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?”
Georges Jacques Danton Quotes |
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“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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“Every law is an infraction of liberty.”
Jeremy Bentham Quotes |
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“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
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“Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.”
Mary McCarthy Quotes |
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“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.”
Henry Brooks Adams Quotes |
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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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