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Liberty Quotes by Wendell Phillips
- The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful,…
- No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they…
- The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
- Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered…
- The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
- Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
- Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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