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    Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect
    everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will
    preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that
    force, you are inevitably ruined.

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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

by Philip Wylie Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

by Thomas Paine Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that
peoples our forests with assassins.
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To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that
peoples our forests with assassins.
[Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une
absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]

by John Philpot Curran Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

by Alexander Hamilton Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
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'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it.

by William Cowper Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is liberty.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is liberty.

by Bible Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its
friends. Liberty in the wild and read more

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its
friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has
once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective
helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.

by Otto Hermann Kahn Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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