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    'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
    Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
    And we are weeds without it.

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Those who work for plant rights
don't parse parsley
nor bomb poppies
nor purchase antipeople papers.
They plant papayas,
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Those who work for plant rights
don't parse parsley
nor bomb poppies
nor purchase antipeople papers.
They plant papayas,
and peppers.
Their pulpit is the popular*
not the papal but poplars.
* not in the sense of ephemeral fame
but what the people want.

by Saiom Shriver Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.

We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.

by Cicero Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its
friends. Liberty in the wild and read more

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its
friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has
once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective
helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.

by Otto Hermann Kahn Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

by Jeremy Bentham Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of read more

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, read more

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is
the greatest of all possible evils; for it read more

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is
the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and
madness, without tuition or restraint.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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