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Liberty Quotes


"From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty."


"Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded, it is a liberty available to anyone."


"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"


"The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion."


"Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles."


"For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire."


"Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty."


"It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it."


"It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity."


"Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like."


"Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him."


"Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak."


"The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it."


"With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty."
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