#libert

It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.' ↗

— Robert Byrd

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It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

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Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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Every law is an infraction of liberty. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

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Empire and liberty. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#liberty

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. ↗

— William Blackstone

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And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty. ↗

— Tony Blair

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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#food

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. ↗

— Will Durant

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