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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right.
The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the 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.
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.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
"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
