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Liberty Quotes
"I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh."
151
"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
107
"Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others."
87
"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
82
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
78
"The more liberty you give away the more you will have."
73
"A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer."
69
"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."
69
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
69
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
66
"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."
65
"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
65
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
62
"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."
61
"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
61
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
59
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
57
"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."
57
"A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century."
57
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
56
"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?"
56
"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."
55
"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."
54
"Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times."
54
"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."
54
"The word 'slavery' and 'right' are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish."
54
"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."
53
"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."
52
"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."
52
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