#liberty

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. ↗

— George Washington

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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ↗

— George Washington

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ↗

— George Washington

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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' ↗

— Robin Williams

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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

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