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Give me liberty, or give me death.
Give me liberty, or give me death.
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
"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
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are read more
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it.
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of read more
It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases read more
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.
You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only read more
You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
