Best Liberty Thoughts
4405 Liberty quotes by 1536 unique authors
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,…
— Thomas Paine
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are here…
— Barbara Jordan
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If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What you need to…
— Ron Paul
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Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of…
— Alan K. Simpson
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Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.
— Harold Laski
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Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our…
— Benjamin Franklin
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties…
— Unknown Author
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many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.
— Unknown Author
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It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those…
— Unknown Author
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Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!
— Madame Roland
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war
— Huey Long
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
— Oscar Wilde
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When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
— Henry David Thoreau
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Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
— Henry David Thoreau
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As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
— Tacitus
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The United States should get rid of its militias.
— Joseph Stalin
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Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last…
— Gerry Spence
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There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
— Thomas Sowell
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Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes
— Thomas Sowell
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