To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement.Thomas Jefferson
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Kahlil Gibran
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis D. Brandeis
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
Thomas Paine
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
Aristotle
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The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
George Washington
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Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
J. Horace McFarland
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All we have of freedom, all we use or know -This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
Rudyard Kipling
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The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Woodrow Wilson