Their Liberties Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
— Edmund Burke
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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…
— Wendell Phillips
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If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
— Edward Abbey
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Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.…
— Joseph Addison
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Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can…
— Noah Webster
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If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do…
— George B. McClellan
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The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their…
— Lysander Spooner
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There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to…
— Aldous Huxley
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No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when…
— Samuel Adams
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If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably…
— Joe Bageant
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A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the…
— Samuel Adams
Who Wrote These Their Liberties Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Their Liberties Quotes as follows: