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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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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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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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton
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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
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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
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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
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