Quotes 221 till 240 of 267.
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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There is no conflict between liberty and safety. We will have both or neither.
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There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power.
The Machiavellians p. 280 -
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
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There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.
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They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
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They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
Speech Chicago 04-11-2008 -
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
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We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…
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We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
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