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Liberty Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
- 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,…
- It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
- When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for…
- The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
- Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to…
- It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that…
- The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years,…
- Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to…
- Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to…
- In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of…
- The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and…
- From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the…
- The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to…
- An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.
- Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly…
- A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of…
- For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree
- My country is wherever liberty lives.
- The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
- I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.
- But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
- He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent…
- Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
- When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
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- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton