"Liberty is its own reward."
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"English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression."
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"Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought."
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"Liberty is a slow fruit."
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"If you cannot be free be as free as you can."
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"The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan."
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"True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something."
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"Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils."
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"The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only."
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"In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object."
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"Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason."
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"Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only way to preserve freedom is through judicious controls on the exercise of private power. If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion."
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"Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric."
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"My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way."
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"Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others."
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"Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it."
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"We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace."
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"To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty."
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"Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming."
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"Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext."
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