#liberty

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ↗

— Dick Cheney

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American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. ↗

— Otto Hermann Kahn

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There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy. ↗

— Will Durant

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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. ↗

— James Madison

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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation. ↗

— Earl Warren

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Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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