#liberty

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. ↗

— William Godwin

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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. ↗

— William Godwin

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The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

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When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

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What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest! ↗

— Joseph Hall

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