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Liberty Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
- They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
- They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private…
- No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
- He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and…
- How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
- The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
- The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by…
- Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
- Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes…
- Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure…
- Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty
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