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    It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

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Where liberty is, there is my country.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

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I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

by Phaedrus Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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The love of liberty with life is given,
And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

The love of liberty with life is given,
And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

by John Dryden Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their read more

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty

by Aristotle Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our read more

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance.

by John Philpot Curran Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Liberty Quotes,
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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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"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our read more

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams

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