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Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof.
Author: Unattributed Author
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.
Author: Joseph Addison
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.]
Author: Bertrand Barere
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Speech at a County Meeting at Bucks
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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Author: Edmund Burke
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.
Author: Robert Burns
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),
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.
Author: Henry Francis Cary
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.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
Author: John Cotton
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.
Author: William Cowper
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.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. V, l. 882)
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Author: John Philpot Curran
Source: Speech, Dublin
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance.
Author: John Philpot Curran
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.]
Author: John Philpot Curran
Source: Speech
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The love of liberty with life is given,
And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
Author: John Dryden
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.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: motto to Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: motto to Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Give me liberty, or give me death.
Author: Patrick Henry
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.
Author: Patrick Henry
Source: in a speech
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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.
Author: Otto Hermann Kahn
Source: Speech at the University of Wisconsin
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I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
Author: Phaedrus
Source: None
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
Source: None
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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.
Author: Harriet Tubman
Source: None
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
Source: None
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Author: John Adams
Source: None
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One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
Author: Frederick Farrar
Source: None
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Author: John Milton
Source: None
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I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
Author: Patrick Henry
Source: None
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Author: Georges Jacques Danton
Source: None
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: None
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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Author: Jeremy Bentham
Source: None
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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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.
Author: Mary McCarthy
Source: None
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
Source: None
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Author: Nadia Boulanger
Source: None
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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
Author: William Allen White
Source: None
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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.
Author: Mary Mccarty
Source: None
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When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
Author: Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Source: None
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
Author: E.p. Thompson
Source: None
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Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
Author: William Allen White
Source: None
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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Author: Philip Wylie
Source: None
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What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Source: None
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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.
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
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