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Liberty Quotes
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
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"I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street."
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"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
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"If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now."
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"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."
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"Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation by the side of the unforgettable Marquis de Lafayette, there would have been no French proclamation of The Rights of Man. Without his brilliant negotiation of the Louisiana treaty, there would be no United States of America. Without Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, there would have been no Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, and no basis for the most precious clause of our most prized element of our imperishable Bill of Rights - the First Amendment to the United States Constitution."
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"In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked."
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"Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don't try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!"
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"When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated."
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"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
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"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
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"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."
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"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."
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"There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself."
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"Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals."
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"But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government."
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"What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity."
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"A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer."
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"From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty."
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"He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth."
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"The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is man. Rights are conditions of existence required by man's nature for his proper survival. If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his values and to keep the product for his work. If life on earth is his purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being: nature forbids him the irrational."
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"Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded, it is a liberty available to anyone."
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"Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and mind to define ourselves and embrace the values that we wish to exemplify. Personal autonomy enables humans to take independent action and use reason to establish moral values. We are part of nature. Consciousness, human cognition, and awareness of our own mortality allow us to script an independent survival reality and not merely react to environmental forces."
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"My liberty depends on you being free, too."
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"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
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"Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like."
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"The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion."
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