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Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.
Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union.
I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.
America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.
We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.
In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.
In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.
The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.
Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.
I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
... the next revolution ... will be when those who work refuse to support those who don't.
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.