#liberty

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty. ↗

— Albert Pike

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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ↗

— Plato

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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. ↗

— Plautus

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A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure. ↗

— Nick Rahall

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The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it. ↗

— Henry A. Wise

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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow. ↗

— George William Curtis

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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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