"Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone."
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"A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth."
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"Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you."
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"An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State."
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"The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens."
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"Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
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"I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness."
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"Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues."
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"The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty."
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"From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose for ourselves, we must allow others to choose also, and so reciprocally, this establishes religious liberty."
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"[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty."
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"It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king."
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"This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together."
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"The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?"
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"Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it."
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"Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it."
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"But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty."
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"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."
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"They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options."
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"I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin and Trotsky revolution, Newton and Halley the shape of the universe, or when Darwin entertained Huxley and Lyell at Down."
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