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Tag Name "Liberty" (3279)

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In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.
A. J. Muste
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
A. J. Liebling
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If you can’t protect life, then how can you protect liberty?
Ron Paul
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Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Edward Gibbon
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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
Emile M. Cioran
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Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for one another and treat one another with fairness, as peers and friends. With such an atmosphere it should be a pleasure to come to work.
Marvin Bower
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In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.
George Gascoigne
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When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.
William J. Clinton
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The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency.
Edward Kennedy
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin
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... the next revolution ... will be when those who work refuse to support those who don't.
Wally Hickel
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Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
James F. Cooper
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The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.
Ted Cruz
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Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.
Albert Camus
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It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.
Robert Byrd
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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are summed up in Anarchist-Communism.
Peter Kropotkin
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be assessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.
Noah Webster
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Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
John Adams
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Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
August Bebel
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