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Liberty |
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| "The basis of a democratic state is
liberty." |
| -- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) |
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| "Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom
is the result of the right choice." |
| -- Anonymous |
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| "Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven
has bestowed upon mankind." |
| -- Miguel de Cervantes
(1547-1616), Spanish writer |
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| "Every law is an infraction of
liberty." |
| -- Jeremy Bentham |
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| "Whenever any form of government becomes
destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and
to institute new government..." |
| -- Thomas Jefferson (1743 -1826) |
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| "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing
army." |
| -- Edward Everett (1794-1865),
American clergyman, orator, educator, diplomat |
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| "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of
power is the love of ourselves." |
| -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830),
British essayist |
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| "If liberty and equality, as is thought by
some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best
attained when all persons alike share in government to the
utmost." |
| -- Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher |
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| "Conquering any difficulty always gives
one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and
adding to one's liberty. |
| -- Henri Frederic Amiel |
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| "He that would make his own liberty secure
must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this
duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." |
| -- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) |
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| "What a curious phenomenon it is that you
can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make
the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their
own individual bondage." |
| -- Bruce Barton (1886-1967), American writer,
congressman |
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| "Discipline must come through liberty. . .
. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been
rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a
paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined." |
| -- Maria Montessori |
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| "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a
country {America}." |
| -- Marquis de Lafayette |
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| "Let every nation know, whether it wishes
us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any
hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival
and success of liberty." |
| -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-63), 35th US
President |
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"Whoever would overthrow the liberty
of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." |
| -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-90),
American public official, writer, scientist |
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| "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at
the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what
course others may take but as for me: give me liberty or give me
death!" |
| -- Patrick Henry (1736-99),
American Revolutionary leader and orator |
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| "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge
among the people." |
| -- John Adams (1735-1826), 2nd
US President, Federalist |
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| "Liberty is
the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and,
therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge,
well-being." |
| -- Lord Acton (1834 - 1902), English historian |
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| "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to
God." |
| -- Thomas Jefferson (1743 -1826) |
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| "For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will
into act?" |
| -- Alighieri Dante (1265-1321),
Italian poet, "The Divine Comedy" |
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| "Liberty means responsibility. That is why
most men dread it." |
| -- George Bernard Shaw (185-1950), English
writer |
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| "The tree of liberty must be refreshed
from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." |
| -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) |
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| "Give me liberty, or give me death! No
liberty today? I'm a very patient person, really. I hate to be
picky, don't you?" |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American
writer |
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| "Guard with jealous attention the public
liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately,
nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up
that force, you are ruined." |
| -- Patrick Henry, American revolutionary leader |
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| "The condition upon which God has given
liberty to man is eternal vigilance." |
| -- John Philpot Curran (1750–1817), Irish
lawyer, politician |
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| "A library is an arsenal of liberty." |
| -- Anonymous |
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| "Liberty is the possibility of doubting,
the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching
and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any
authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and
even political." |
| -- Ignazio Silone (1900 - 1978) |
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| "The shepherd drives the wolf from the
sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his
liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the
destroyer of liberty." |
| -- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) |
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| "God grant that not only the love of
liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade
all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot
anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.' " |
| -- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), American
colonial leader and writer |
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| "Liberty has never come from the
government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The
history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of
liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the
increase of it." |
| -- Woodrow Wilson |
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| "He who lets the world, or his own portion
of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other
faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan
for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to
see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials
for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided,
firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision." |
| -- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), English
philosopher |
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| "If you want to be free, there is but one
way; it is to guarantee and equally full measure of liberty to all
your neighbors. There is no other." |
| -- Carl Schurz |
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"What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty." |
| -- Edmund Spenser |
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| "Liberty has never come from the
government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The
history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of
liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the
increase of it." |
| -- Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979), French music
teacher |
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