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Liberties Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but…
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set…
- The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts…
- Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .…
- The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.
- Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will,…
- Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
- A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not…
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
- We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The…
- The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these…
- Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people…
- What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let…
- The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption…
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- Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams
- It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties. — Lance Bass
- The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty… — Samuel Adams
- Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't. — Joe Biden
- The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit… — William J. Brennan
- In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible… — Harry Browne
- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. — Edmund Burke
- The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the… — John C. Calhoun
- In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people… — Barbara Jordan
- If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence. — Thomas Jefferson