#libert

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

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Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. ↗

— Andre Breton

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To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

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It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers. ↗

— Robert Byrd

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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ↗

— Dick Cheney

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