Liberty Quotes

There is something kind of aggressively and inhumanly repetitive about this line that guns are essential to American liberties - hard one to stomach when so many thousands of people are dying every year for this so-called liberty.

Bret Stephens

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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.

Edmund Morgan

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Money's the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.

Bill Cunningham

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We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Archibald MacLeish

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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Earl Warren

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Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today's youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention.

Alex Pareene

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In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

Arthur Keith

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There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

Alan Dershowitz

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This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

Algernon Sidney

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I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

Wilfrid Laurier

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England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the advantages of a free people, which the nations of the Continent have long since lost.

William Godwin

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It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

John C. Calhoun

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For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

Virgil Goode

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In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

Potter Stewart

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We believe that Liberty will redefine what is considered an academically prestigious university in the future.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

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Back in 2010, it didn't matter when it was only Cuban democrats, Zimbabwean dissidents, Afghan reformists and Russian bloggers whose lives and liberty were put at risk by Wikileaks' wilfully negligent data dumps.

Terry Glavin

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The nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of their government? They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways.

Sharron Angle

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We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.

John Frame

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Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

Paul P. Harris

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

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Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.

John Cornyn

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It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

Margaret Fuller

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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Thomas Jefferson

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The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Max Stirner

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