Liberty Quotes

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Jose Rizal

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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

Hanoi Hannah

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This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

Elmer Davis

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I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.

Don Young

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I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

Gabriela Sabatini

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

David Lloyd George

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What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for all her scale and immensity, there's something soft about the Statue of Liberty, something tender about her.

Derek Walcott

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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter

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When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

Cristela Alonzo

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Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it.

Chris Jordan

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I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Dan Quayle

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We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

Charles Evans Hughes

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It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

Chuck Schumer

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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Edmund Burke

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Personal liberty is not personal license.

Billy Sunday

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Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

Antonio de Mendoza

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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

Earl Warren

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Arthur Keith

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'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free.

Alan Colmes

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The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

Algernon Sidney

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I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.

Wesley Snipes

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He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

William Godwin

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Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.

John C. Calhoun

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