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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.
I would curse people who resort to coups against democracy, liberty, republic.
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.
Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.
Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love.
The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.
The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.
The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.
God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity.
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
If the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist.
Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.
I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.
Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.
There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.
To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.