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Liberty Quotes
"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
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"I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh."
34
"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."
24
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
20
"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
18
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
18
"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
17
"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."
15
"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."
15
"Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times."
15
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
15
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
13
"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it."
13
"A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century."
13
"The more liberty you give away the more you will have."
12
"Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow."
10
"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."
10
"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."
9
"It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you."
9
"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."
9
"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
9
"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."
9
"The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty."
9
"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."
8
"Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa."
8
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
8
"Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others."
8
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
8
"Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class."
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