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Tag Name "Liberty" (3272)

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Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.
Andrew Horning
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One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.
Hillary Clinton
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The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.
Vladimir Putin
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They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?
Paul Harvey
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In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.
Pierre Trudeau
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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Voltaire
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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
Voltaire
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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
Voltaire
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Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence.
Mathilde Blind
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I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
Voltairine de Cleyre
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I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.
Frederick Douglass
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If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel. Think that your soul is strong and will hold its way and slowly, through bitter struggle perhaps the strength will grow.
Voltairine de Cleyre
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A man won't steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing in liberty the cost of stealing would involve greater difficulties than producing, and consequently he would not be apt to steal.
Voltairine de Cleyre
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Andre Breton
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I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.
Theobald of Bec
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The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty, they will get a chance to pursue happiness and perhaps will be able to develop toward the ultimate goal of creation.
Richard E. Byrd
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The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
Wallace Stevens
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt
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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington
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Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
Walt Whitman
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