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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), 'The Fate of the Butterfly,' 1591

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

John Adams (1735 - 1826)

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.

Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)

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The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

George F. Will (1941 - )

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Results from Classic Quotes:

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952)

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

John Randolph (1773 - 1833)

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799), (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)