"We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free."
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"If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued."
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"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"
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"Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance."
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"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
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"How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty."
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"A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible--we have it all, or we are not free."
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"With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it."
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"In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that."
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"I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of our liberties."
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"Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy."
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"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?"
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"We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing."
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"Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary."
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"Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous."
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"He does not possess wealth; it possesses him."
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"Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'"
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"I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion."
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"I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with."
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"I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have."
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