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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsley nor bomb poppies nor purchase antipeople papers. They plant papayas, and peppers. Their pulpit is the popular* not the papal but poplars. * not in the sense of ephemeral fame but what the people want.

Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.

It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.