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Liberty Quotes
"I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh."
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"Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived."
"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
"Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals."
"Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it."
"Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow."
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
"It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you."
"Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class."
"Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist."
"In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked."
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it."
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
"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."
"Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it."
"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
"Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times."
"I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street."
"Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like."
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
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