#liberty

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge. ↗

— Matt Blunt

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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ↗

— Edward Everett

#army #better #liberty #safeguard #standing

The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal. ↗

— Olympia Brown

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I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty. ↗

— David Antin

#became #because #feeling #had #i

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#christian #conscription #contradiction #democratic #flat

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#disappearing #europe #generation #generations #given

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#beforehand #caused #contrary #exist #existed

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#individual #injustice #law #lawful #liberty

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#doing #every #faculties #freedom #full