"Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither."
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"Little liberties are great offenses."
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"We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason."
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"But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science."
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"A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line."
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"Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant."
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"There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced."
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"I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing."
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"The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament."
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"Liberty is dangerous."
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"Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style."
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"Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty."
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"I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals."
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"Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier which the Collective cannot cross... these rights are man's protection against all other men."
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"The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty."
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"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."
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"Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found."
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"Liberty, without wisdom, is license."
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"TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty."
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"Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs."
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