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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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"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
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"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."
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"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
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"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
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"Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times."
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"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
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"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
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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."
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
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"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
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"A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century."
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"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."
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"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."
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"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it."
4
"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."
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"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
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"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
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"The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty."
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"Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow."
3
"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."
3
"I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street."
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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."
3
"I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions."
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"Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others."
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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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"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."
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