#liberty

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

— William Allen White

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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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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. ↗

— Wendell L. Wilkie

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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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For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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