#liberty

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. ↗

— Andre Breton

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To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats. ↗

— Harry Browne

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In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

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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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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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