#liberty

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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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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