#libert

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few. ↗

— Russell Pearce

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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. ↗

— Francis Picabia

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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ↗

— Plato

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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. ↗

— Plautus

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If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged. ↗

— Richard Price

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But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification. ↗

— Thomas Day

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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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