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- 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)
- It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
- David Hume (1711 - 1776)
- The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
- John Peter Zenger
- Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
- Rousseau
- A library is an arsenal of liberty.
- Unknown
- Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
- Learned Hand, jurist
- What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty. - Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly
- The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799), First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
- Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941), (Supreme Court Justice) 1928
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