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- Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.
- Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799)
- God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
- Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799)
- The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
- John Philpot Curran, in a speech July 10, 1790
- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
- Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
- For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.
- Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
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