Quotes with pro-liberty

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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Paine When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bertrand Russell Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Edward Everett Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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  • George Orwell I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • George Washington Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Frank Gifford Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
    Frank Gifford
    American football player and actor (1930 - )
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  • B. R. Ambedkar So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Eugene McCarthy The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Voltaire The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Ben Platt 'Pitch Perfect 2' is about the Bellas and what happens to them as they get older. All your favorite characters are coming back. Chrissie Fit was great, and Hailee Steinfeld is such a pro - she fit right in. I had no idea she was 17! She's the most mature girl ever.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Francis Picabia A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Bainbridge Colby A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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