"Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty."
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"Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty."
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"If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me."
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"What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?"
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"This liberty is all that I request."
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"Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!"
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"Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves."
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"The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty."
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"A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation."
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"Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional"
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"Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve."
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"There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing."
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"[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous."
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"Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should."
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"Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days."
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"In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better."
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"We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man."
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"An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer."
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"Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far."
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"We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution."
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