#liberty

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. ↗

— Lord Acton

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And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

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It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. ↗

— Harry Browne

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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest. ↗

— George W. Bush

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To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship. ↗

— Robert Byrd

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