#liberty

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats. ↗

— Harry Browne

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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. ↗

— Thomas Hood

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I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ↗

— Bob Hope

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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#heaven #liberty #little #men #tyrant

The more liberty you give away the more you will have. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#give #liberty #more #will #you

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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