#liberty

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

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If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

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The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected. ↗

— Mike Ferguson

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service. ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

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If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. ↗

— John Cotton

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I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor. ↗

— Ted Cruz

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I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

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My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. ↗

— Henry St. John

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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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