Liberty Quotes

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater

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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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It is very exciting to have the opportunity to return to the East Coast and join the Liberty family.

Anne Donovan

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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

Bainbridge Colby

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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Albert Pike

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Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

Algernon Sidney

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Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.

Wil Wheaton

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But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

William Kunstler

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Those who serve in our armed forces do so from a profound sense of duty to secure liberty for their fellow Americans. They enlist to serve their fellow citizens who express their will through elected representatives, not an unaccountable defense establishment.

Joe Lonsdale

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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Will Rogers

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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Plato

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It is my understanding that some groups who are opposed to visiting our campus are basing their decision on Liberty's concealed carry policy.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Thomas Aquinas

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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Susan Sontag

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I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.

John Adams

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The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Sarah Fielding

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The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Thomas Hobbes

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By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

John Dalberg-Acton

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Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Paul Singer

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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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One of the U.S. Soccer Federation's points is that it's an honour and a privilege to to play for this country, and it is. But we also represent the entire country, and the idea of liberty and justice isn't afforded to everyone.

Megan Rapinoe

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Empire and liberty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine

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We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Robert Jackson

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