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“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security”
Benjamin Franklin
“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
Oscar Wilde
“The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force”
Voltaire
“All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws”
“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...”
Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.)”
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
“There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Without Freedom of thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of speech”
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