Quotes 121 till 140 of 246.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
Letter to James Madison, 02-03-1788 -
Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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License they mean when they cry liberty.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.
Libertys Declaration of Purpose -
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
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My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) -
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
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Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
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