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Quote 2945
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedomShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 2941
Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from othersShowing Quotes on liberty
Quote 2853
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from themShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 2837
Riches are chiefly good because they give us timeShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 2753
Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it backShowing Quotes on liberty
Quote 2738
I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman, they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independenceShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 2660
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.Showing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 2624
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.Showing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 2476
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same lifeShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 2473
The less of government the better, if society were kept in peace and prosperity.Showing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 2255
So free we seem, so fettered fast we areShowing Quotes on liberty
Quote 2245
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not freeShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 2226
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mindShowing Quotes on liberty
Quote 2159
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficentShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 2146
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.Showing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 2143
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of libertyShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 2135
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them natureShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 1848
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get outShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 1816
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondageShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 1715
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himselfShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 1696
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they couldShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 1600
Life without liberty is like a body without spiritShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 1571
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.Showing Quotes on liberty
Quote 1504
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the cloudsShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 1467
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forumShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 1466
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopularShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 1225
Peace is liberty in tranquillityShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 1139
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.Showing Quotes on liberty
Quote 640
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.Showing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 516
: I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slaveryShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 485
Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his countryShowing Quotes on liberty
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Quote 203
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growthShowing Quotes on liberty
Quote 77
Resolve and thou art freeShowing Quotes on liberty
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