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• But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Nature, Truth

  Tags in Liberty, Appearing, Want

• In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

  Kathleen Norris

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Liberty

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Equally, Order

• The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

  Simon Bolivar

  Tags in Liberty

• Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Like, Liberty, Spirit, Freedom

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

  Jules Renard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Freedom

• When liberty returns, I will return.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Return

• The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Civilization

• Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

  John Stuart Mill

  Tags in Liberty

• Liberation is not deliverance.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Freedom

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Authority, Liberty, Struggle

• The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

  John Stuart Mill

  Tags in Liberty

• The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.

  John Stuart Mill

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Liberty, Prevention

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Imperialism, Independence, Noninterventionism, Peace, Freedom

• For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

  Jimmy Carter

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Liberty

• Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Enemy, Power

  Tags in Liberty

• 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

  Topics in Love, Soul

  Tags in Liberty, Heart, Man

• The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Away

• Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without
  which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to
  abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because
  it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation
  of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to
  fire its destructive agency.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Freedom

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Order