#libert

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. ↗

— William Godwin

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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

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What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest! ↗

— Joseph Hall

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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

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