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• Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

  Patrick Henry

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• Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

  Xanana Gusmao

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• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

  Matthew Arnold

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• Liberty is the only thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.

  William Allen White

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• Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

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• Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

  James Madison Jr

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  Tags in Liberty, Learning, Security

• I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.

  Donald Cargill

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• We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society

  Henry St. John

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• The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

  Miguel de Cervantes

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• Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

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• As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

  Andrew Jackson

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• When liberty returns, I will return.

  Victor Hugo

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• Empire and liberty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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