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Liberty Quotes
"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
55
"I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh."
42
"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."
32
"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
27
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
27
"Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times."
24
"The more liberty you give away the more you will have."
24
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
24
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
24
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
21
"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
21
"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."
20
"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."
19
"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."
19
"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it."
18
"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."
18
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
17
"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
17
"The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty."
17
"A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century."
17
"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."
15
"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."
15
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
15
"Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others."
15
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
15
"Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow."
14
"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."
14
"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."
14
"A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer."
14
"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."
13
"Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa."
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