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Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise. ↗

— James Buchan

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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty. ↗

— Steve Buyer

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It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

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If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

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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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The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected. ↗

— Mike Ferguson

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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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