#liberty

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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The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty. ↗

— Francois Guizot

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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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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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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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