#lib

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. ↗

— Nate Silver

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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

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On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles. ↗

— Joe Slovo

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I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi. ↗

— Shepard Smith

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I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

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