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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.: Lord Acton, Lecture, February 26, 1877
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Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything.: Anonymous
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.: Richard Baxter (1615 - 1691)
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.: John Milton (1608 - 1674)
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)

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