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Liberty

«The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.»
«The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,»
«The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.»
«The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.»
Author: John Philpot Curran (Lawyer, Orator, Statesman) | About: Liberty | Keywords: vigilance
«The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.»
Author: Ludwig Borne | About: Liberty
«The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards»
«The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty»
«The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction»
Author: Douglas MacArthur (General) | About: Liberty | Keywords: inescapable
«The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.»
«The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical»