#liberty

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. ↗

— John Adams

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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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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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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. ↗

— David Lloyd George

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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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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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