#liberty

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

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I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

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