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Liberty Quotes
"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
66
"I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh."
55
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
40
"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
37
"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."
35
"The more liberty you give away the more you will have."
33
"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
32
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
31
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
30
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
29
"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."
28
"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."
28
"Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times."
28
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
27
"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."
27
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
26
"Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest of his body."
26
"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."
24
"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."
24
"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
24
"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."
23
"A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer."
23
"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it."
22
"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."
22
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
22
"Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free?"
22
"A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century."
22
"Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others."
21
"Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow."
20
"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."
20
"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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