#liberty

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. ↗

— George Washington

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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. ↗

— George Washington

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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ↗

— George Washington

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ↗

— George Washington

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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. ↗

— Wendell L. Wilkie

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For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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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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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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