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He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord 
is, there is liberty.  
 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord 
is, there is liberty. 
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
 Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
 Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
  For there thy habitation is read more 
 Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
 Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
  For there thy habitation is the heart--
   The heart which love of thee alone can bind;
    And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd--
     To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom,
      Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), 
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
 To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that 
peoples our forests with assassins.
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 To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that 
peoples our forests with assassins.
 [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une 
absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.] 
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
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.
Give me liberty, or give me death.
Give me liberty, or give me death.