Quotes with liberty

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  • Henry Brooks Adams Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.
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  • Barbara Amiel All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Ben Nelson Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Bainbridge Colby America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Bill Clinton American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Maria Montessori An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Malcolm X Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • George Washington Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Andrew Jackson As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Will Durant As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Will Durant Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Edward Gibbon Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Rose Macaulay Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Cass Sunstein Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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