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One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.
Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.
Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood - human blood.
It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.
LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.
Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.
May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.
A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.
Only a real asshole takes liberties with someone else's car stereo. That's serious.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.
The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use.
The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.
Everybody in the world is - is ready for liberty. It's a question of how you do it.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.
You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep.
Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.