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- God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
- Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
- Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
- Barry Goldwater (1909 - 1998), Speech accepting nomination for president, July 16, 1964
- This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.
- Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959), Valley Forge, Act III, 1937
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Archibald Stuart, December 23, 1791
- It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letters to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803
- Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
- Liberty also means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Maxims for Revolutionists
- The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852), Speech in the Senate, May 27, 1834
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