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Liberty Quotes by John Quincy Adams
- Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
- America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.
- Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most…
- The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
- Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
- America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows…
- Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers…
- [America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto…
- Individual liberty is individual power.
- And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all ages of the…
- The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls…
- The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls…
- America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
- Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers…
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