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• Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Liberty, Political

• My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

  Dylan Thomas

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Liberty, Eyes, Reading

• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Liberty, Rather, Small
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  Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man.

  Jean Paul Sartre

  Topics in God, Soul

  Tags in Liberty, Against

• Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Liberty

• 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

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Liberty, Oppression, Own, Make, Reach, Freedom

• The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Love, Power

  Tags in Liberty, Ourselves, Freedom

• Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Liberty, Sea

• Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

  David Lloyd George

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty

• Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

  David Lloyd George

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty

• Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

  Denis Kearney

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Liberty

• Of course it’s why you want to become a writer – because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

  Tobias Wolff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Obligation, Writing

• Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

  Davy Crockett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty

• How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

  Burl Ives

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Walk, Streets

• It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

  David Hume

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty

• A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

  Daniel Webster

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Liberty

• Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

  Daniel Webster

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Union, Liberty

• The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

  Daniel Webster

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Liberty, Contest

• Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

  Daniel Webster

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty

• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  Frederica Montseny

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Human, Liberty