#libert

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts. ↗

— Roger Wicker

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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' ↗

— Robin Williams

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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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Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. ↗

— Philip Wylie

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