Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necessary that those powers should be properly distributed
James Wilson
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
Hilaire Belloc
Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave.
Andrew Fletcher
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them...
Richard Henry Lee
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthy
In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own
Thomas Jefferson
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
Will Durant
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
Robert Ingersoll
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit
Kahlil Gibran
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.
Sir Walter Scott
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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