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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. -
Henry Brooks Adams
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When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. -
Georg Hegel
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Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. -
John Adams
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They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed. -
John Tillotson
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. -
Angela Y Davis
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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. -
William Blake
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. -
Andre Breton
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. -
Edmund Burke
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. -
Edmund Burke
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The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion. -
Edmund Burke
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. -
Edmund Burke
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It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength. -
Lord Byron
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The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. -
Margot Asquith
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. -
Mikhail Bakunin
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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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Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God. -
Norman Vincent Peale
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I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty. -
Phaedrus
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