#liberty

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#affirmative #affirmative action #american #american idea #antithetical

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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Liberty means more to me than life itself. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. ↗

— Ellen Key

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Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ↗

— George Santayana

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