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Liberty Quotes by George Orwell
- Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.
- Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
- The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and…
- Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
- The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work…
- The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
- Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?
- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
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- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once… — Michele Bachmann
- If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and… — Michele Bachmann
- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton