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• Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights.

  James Madison Jr

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• Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

  Theodore Roosevelt

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  Tags in Liberty, Equally, Order

• We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

  Virginia Foxx

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  Tags in Liberty, Know

• The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

  Walt Whitman

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• Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

  John Adams

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• What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

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  Tags in Liberty, Heart, Man

• The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Topics in Nature, Power

  Tags in Liberty, Right, Man

• The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

  William Hazlitt

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• Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.

  Ambrose Bierce

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• I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

  Kate Adie

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  Tags in Liberty, Fairness, Excited, Interest

• The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England.

  John Stuart Mill

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  Tags in Authority, Liberty, Struggle

• For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

  Todd Tiahrt

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• There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

  Alexander Hamilton

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• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

  Edward Everett

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• America… goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

  John Quincy Adams

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• Liberation is not deliverance.

  Victor Hugo

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• The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.

  Jules Renard

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• Things aren’t right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

  Bill Maher

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  Tags in Liberty, Negotiation, Restraint, Burglar, Home, Freedom

• Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

  John Adams

  Topics in Knowledge, Wisdom

  Tags in Liberty, People, Freedom

• Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

  Umberto Eco

  Topics in Honesty, Humor, Truth

  Tags in Liberty, Learning, Freedom