xxLiberty Quote

%start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.//%Author%inscription on the Liberty Bell from Leviticus 25:10 //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.//%Author%Henry Brooks Adams //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.//%Author%Joseph Addison//%Source%Cato (act II, sc. 1) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.//%Author%Berthold Auerbach //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.//%Author%Honore de Balzac //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ne croit qu'arrose par le sang des tyrans.]//%Author%Bertrand Barere//%Source%Speech in the Convention Nationale //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.//%Author%Henry Ward Beecher //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.//%Author%Bible, II Corinthians//%Source%(ch. III, v. 17) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.//%Author%1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Henry St. John //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.//%Author%Edmund Burke //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty, without wisdom, is license.//%Author%Edmund Burke //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.//%Author%Edmund Burke //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.//%Author%Edmund Burke//%Source%Speech on the Conciliation of America (vol. II, p. 118) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.//%Author%Robert Burns//%Source%Bruce to His Men at Bannockburn //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.//%Author%Bishop Joseph Butler //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The wish, which ages have not yet subdued\\In man, to have no master save his mood.//%Author%Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!\\ Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,\\ For there thy habitation is the heart--\\ The heart which love of thee alone can bind;\\ And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd--\\ To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom,\\ Their country conquers with their martyrdom. //%Author%Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)//%Source%Sonnet--Introductory to Prisoner of Chillon //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%When Liberty from Greece withdrew,\\ And o'er the Adriatic flew,\\ To where the Tiber pours his urn,\\ She struck the rude Tarpeian rock;\\ Sparks were kindled by the shock--\\ Again thy fires began to burn.//%Author%Henry Francis Cary//%Source%Power of Eloquence //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,\\ And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,\\ Possessing all things with intensest love,\\ O liberty! my spirit felt thee there.//%Author%Samuel Taylor Coleridge//%Source%France--An Ode (V) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty is one of the choicest gifts that heaven hath bestowed upon man, and exceeds in value all the treasures which the earth contains within its bosom, or the sea covers. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.//%Author%Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.//%Author%Charles I //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.//%Author%Charles Caleb Colton //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.//%Author%Abraham Cowley //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought\\Of freedom, in that hope itself possess\\All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,\\The scorn of danger, and united hearts,\\The surest presage of the good they seek.//%Author%William Cowper //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower\\Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;\\And we are weeds without it.//%Author%William Cowper//%Source%Task (bk. V, l. 446) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Then liberty, like day,\\Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven\\Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.//%Author%William Cowper//%Source%Task (bk. V, l. 882) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.//%Author%John Philpot Curran//%Source%Speech, Dublin %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.//%Author%John Philpot Curran//%Source%Speech %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.\\[Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]//%Author%Denis Diderot %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The love of liberty with life is given,\\And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.//%Author%John Dryden//%Source%Palamon and Arcite (bk. II, l. 291) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%O liberty,\\Parent of happiness, celestial born\\When the first man became a living soul;\\His sacred genius thou.//%Author%Sir Edward Dyer //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty is a slow fruit.//%Author%Ralph Waldo Emerson //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.//%Author%Quintus Ennius //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.//%Author%Harry Emerson Fosdick //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.//%Author%Benjamin Franklin//%Source%in correspondence //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.//%Author%Benjamin Franklin //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.//%Author%Benjamin Franklin//%Source%motto to Historical Review of Pennsylvania //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Where liberty dwells, there is my country.//%Author%Benjamin Franklin //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.//%Author%William Lloyd Garrison //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty is worth whatever the best civilization is worth.//%Author%Henry Giles //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.//%Author%Johann Wolfgang von Goethe //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.//%Author%George Stillman Hillard //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.//%Author%Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin. //%Author%George C. Homans//%Source% said on the British Broadcast System and published in the "Listener," August 16, 1956 //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.//%Author%Thomas Jefferson //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.//%Author%Thomas Jefferson //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.//%Author%Thomas Jefferson //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.//%Author%Thomas Jefferson //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.//%Author%Thomas Jefferson//%Source% Summary View of the Rights of British America //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.//%Author%Samuel Johnson//%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.//%Author%Samuel Johnson//%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.//%Author%Otto Hermann Kahn//%Source%Speech at the University of Wisconsin //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.//%Author%Otto Hermann Kahn//%Source%Speech at the University of Wisconsin //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.//%Author%John F. Kennedy //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.//%Author%Abraham Lincoln //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Where slavery is, there liberty cannot be; and where liberty is, there slavery cannot be.//%Author%Abraham Lincoln //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The liberty of the people, he says, whom power restrains unduly, perishes through liberty.\\[Lat., Libertas, inquit, populi quem regna coercent,\\Libertate perit.]//%Author%Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)//%Source%Pharsalia (bk. III, 146) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.//%Author%General Douglas MacArthur //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.//%Author%General Douglas MacArthur //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.//%Author%James Madison//%Source%The Federalist (no. 10) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.//%Author%Katherine Mansfield //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%License they mean when they cry, Liberty!\\For who loves that, must first be wise and good.//%Author%John Milton//%Source%On the Detraction which followed upon my Writing Certain Treatises //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Justly thou abhorr'st\\ That son, who on the quiet state of men\\ Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue\\ Rational liberty; yet know withal,\\ Since thy original lapse, true liberty\\ Is lost.//%Author%John Milton//%Source%Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 79) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty is the right to do whatever the law permits.//%Author%Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Oh! if there be, on this earthly sphere,\\ A boon, an offering Heaven holds dear,\\ 'Tis the last libation Liberty draws\\ From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause!//%Author%Thomas Moore//%Source%Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (st. 11) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.//%Author%Louis Charles Alfred de Musset //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.//%Author%George Orwell//%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.//%Author%Thomas Paine //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.//%Author%Thomas Paine//%Source%Reflections on Titles //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Natural liberty is the right of common upon a waste; civil liberty is the safe, exclusive, unmolested enjoyment of a cultivated enclosure.//%Author%William Paley//%Who%Archdeacon of Saragossa //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.//%Author%Wendell Phillips //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.//%Author%Wendell Phillips //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Give me again my hollow tree\\A crust of bread, and liberty!//%Author%Alexander Pope//%Source%Imitations of Horace (bk. II, satire VI, l. 220) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of liberty.//%Author%Henry Martyn Robert //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.//%Author%Will Rogers //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%O liberty! liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name.//%Author%Madame Jeanne Marie Phlipon de La Platiere Roland //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%O liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!\\ [Fr., O liberte! que de crimes on commet dans ton nom!]//%Author%Madame Jeanne Marie Phlipon de La Platiere Roland//%Source%Memoirs--Appendix //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.//%Author%Franklin Delano Roosevelt//%Source%July 4, 1941, Independence Day Broadcast//%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.//%Author%Benjamin Rush //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail,--strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.//%Author%John Ruskin //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%That treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.//%Author%John Ruskin//%Source%Seven Lamps of Architecture (ch. VIII, sect. XXI) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.//%Author%Girolamo Savonarola //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Reason and virtue alone can bestow liberty.//%Who%Lord Shaftesbury, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury///%Author%Anthony Ashley Cooper//%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.//%Author%William Shakespeare //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%I must have liberty\\ Withal, as large a charter as the wind,\\ To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.//%Author%William Shakespeare//%Source%As You Like It (Jaques at II, vii) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.\\ There's nothing situate under heaven's eye\\ But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.//%Author%William Shakespeare//%Source%The Comedy of Errors (Luciana at II, i) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.//%Author%Henry Wheeler Shaw//%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.//%Author%Algernon Sidney//%Who%(Sydney) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.//%Author%William Gilmore Simms //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty is quite as much a moral as a political growth,--the result of free individual action, energy, and independence.//%Author%Samuel Smiles //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Deep in the frozen regions of the north,\\ A goddess violated brought thee forth,\\ Immortal Liberty!//%Author%Tobias George Smollett//%Source%Ode to Independence (l. 5) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.//%Author%Herbert Spencer //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Behold! in Liberty's unclouded blaze\\We lift our heads, a race of other days.//%Author%Charles Sprague//%Source%Centennial Ode (st. 22) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.//%Author%Charles Sumner //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.//%Author%Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine//%Who%(Soimonoff) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.\\ [Lat., Liberatem natura etiam mutis animalibus datam.]//%Author%Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)//%Source%Annales (IV, 17) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.\\[Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]//%Author%Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)//%Source%De Oratoribus (46) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty--the only one. People went to America to be free.//%Author%Margaret Thatcher //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%By the side of these religious men I discern others whose looks are turned to the earth more than to Heaven; they are the partisans of liberty, not only as the source of the noblest virtues, but more especially as the root of all solid advantages; and they sincerely desire to extend its sway, and to impart its blessings to mankind. It is natural that they should hasten to invoke the assistance of religion, for they must know that liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith; but they have seen religion in the ranks of their adversaries, and they inquire no further; some of them attack it openly, and the remainder are afraid to defend it.//%Author%Alexis de Tocqueville//%Source%Democracy in America (vol. 1, introductory chapter) //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.//%Author%Earl Warren //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.//%Author%George Washington//%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.//%Author%Daniel Webster//%Source%in an address in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Bunker Hill Monument //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open, on golden hinges, to lovers of Union as well as of Liberty.//%Author%Daniel Webster//%Source%Letter, when refused the use of the hall after his speech on the Compromise Measures //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.//%Author%Daniel Webster//%Source%Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner //%end% %start%%cat=Liberty//%quote%On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn,"\\"Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.//%Author%Daniel Webster//%Source%Speeches, The Bunker Hill Monument //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.//%Author%James Truslow Adams //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright!\\ Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!\\ Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,\\ And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.//%Author%Joseph Addison //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%Better to starve free than be a fat slave.//%Author%Aesop //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%A man is either free or he is not.//%Author%Imamu Amiri Baraka //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%Freedom all solace to man gives:\\He lives at ease that freely lives.//%Author%John Barbour//%Source%The Bruce (bk. I, 225) //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.//%Author%Cyrus Augustus Bartol //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%A bird in a cage is not half a bird.//%Author%Henry Ward Beecher //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%When they try to intimidate us, we will not be intimidated, when they seek to change our country, our way of life by these methods, we will not be changed. When they try to divide our people or weaken our resolve, we will not be divided and our resolve will hold firm. We will show by our spirit and dignity and by a quiet and true strength that there is in the British people that our values will long outlast theirs. The purpose of terrorism is just that. It is to terrorize people, and we will not be terrorized. This is a very sad day for the British people but we will hold true to the British way of life. . . . It's important, however, that those engaged in terrorism realize that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world. Whatever they do, it is our determination that they will never succeed in destroying what we hold dear in this country and in other civilized nations throughout the world.//%Author%Tony Blair //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%Whose service is perfect freedom.//%Author%Book of Common Prayer//%Source%Collect for Peace //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%The cause of freedom is the cause of God.//%Author%William Lisle Bowles //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%. . . for righteous monarchs,\\Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see;\\To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.//%Author%Henry Brooke//%Source%Earl of Essex (act I) //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.//%Author%Robert Browning //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%Oh, Freedom! thou art not, as poets dream,\\ A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs,\\ And wavy tresses gushing from the cap\\ With which the Roman master crowned his slave\\ When he took off the gyves. A bearded man\\ Armed to the teeth, art thou; one mailed hand\\ Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow,\\ Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred\\ With tokens of old wars.//%Author%William Cullen Bryant //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%Oh; not yet\\ May'st thou unbrace thy corslet, nor lay by\\ Thy sword, nor yet, O Freedom! close thy lids\\ In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.\\ And thou must watch and combat, till the day\\ Of the new earth and heaven.//%Author%William Cullen Bryant //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,\\ Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place\\ A limit to the giant's unchained strength,\\ Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?//%Author%William Cullen Bryant//%Source%The Ages (XXXIII) //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.//%Author%Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton//%Who%1st Baron Lytton //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.//%Author%Edmund Burke //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.//%Author%Edmund Burke //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.//%Author%Edmund Burke //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?//%Author%Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%The mountains look on Marathon,\\ And Marathon looks on the sea;\\ And musing there an hour alone\\ I dream'd that Greece might still be free.\\For standing on the Persians' grave\\ I could not deem myself a slave.//%Author%Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) //%end% %start%%cat=Freedom//%quote%

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