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Liberty, as it is concieved 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 behaviour.
Mary Mccarty
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
E.p. Thompson
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Those who work for plant rights
don't parse parsley
nor bomb poppies
nor purchase antipeople papers.
They plant papayas,
and peppers.
Their pulpit is the popular*
not the papal but poplars.
* not in the sense of ephemeral fame
but what the people want.
Saiom Shriver
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
Felix Frankfurter
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By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
Cyril James
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Woodrow Wilson
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Benjamin Franklin
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