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> [Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/abstract-liberty-like-other-mere-abstractions-is-not-to-be-found/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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> [Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/life-without-liberty-is-like-a-body-without-spirit/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanoi-hannah/i-have-always-compared-our-traditions-of-liberty-like-those-of/)

[Hanoi Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanoi-hannah/)

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> [Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norm-macdonald/liberty-like-health-appears-most-precious-when-lost/)

[Norm MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norm-macdonald/)

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> [Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/life-without-liberty-is-like-a-body-without-spirit-liberty-without/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [“Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-jacques-rousseau-2/liberty-is-like-rich-food-and-strong-wine-the-strong-natures/)

[Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-jacques-rousseau-2/)

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> [When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/when-individuals-and-nations-have-once-got-in-their-heads-the/)

[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/)

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> [There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-h-jackson/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-achieved-liberty-like-electricity-there-2/)

[Robert H. Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-h-jackson/)

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> [Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-cowper/then-liberty-like-day-breaks-on-the-soul-and-by-a-flash-from-heaven/)

[William Cowper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-cowper/)

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> [There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-h-jackson/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-achieved-liberty-like-electricity-there/)

[Robert H. Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-h-jackson/)

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> [“Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rousseau-jean-jacques/liberty-is-like-those-solid-and-tasty-foods-or-those-full-bodied/)

[Rousseau Jean-Jacques](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rousseau-jean-jacques/)

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