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Liberty Quotes
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. (Quote by - John Cotton)
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world. (Quote by - Earl Warren)
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right. (Quote by - Learned Hand)
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
Liberty is the right to do as the law permits. (Quote by - Montesquieu)
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. (Quote by - John Milton)
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.(Quote by - Lord Byron)
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)