#liberty

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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Liberty means more to me than life itself. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. ↗

— Ellen Key

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