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" Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. "

" A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. "

" Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it. "

" Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. "

Bertrand Russell

" A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget. "

" Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. "

" A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. "

Francis Picabia

" A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad. "

Oliver Ellsworth

" A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. "

Nadia Boulanger

" A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. "

Mikhail Bakunin

" A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare. "

Bainbridge Colby

" All government, of course, is against liberty. "

" All I'm for is the liberty of the individual. "

" All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. "

" All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty. "

" Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract. "

" America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation. "

" Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms. "

Christine Pelosi

" Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize. "

Christine O'Donnell

" American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world. "

" America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty. "

Bainbridge Colby

" America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Constitution sought to preserve religious liberty to such an extent that they made it the first right protected in the Bill of Rights. "

" A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself. "

George Berkeley

" Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. "

" Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can. "

" And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty. "

" Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors. "

" Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. "

George Washington

" A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure. "

" Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out? "

Mitch McConnell

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