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"If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered." Adam Smith 4.25 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." Alexis de Tocqueville 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other." Alexis de Tocqueville 3.82352941176471 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." Aristotle 4.7 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin 4.8343949044586 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Benjamin Franklin 4.89285714285714 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"'Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own." Benjamin Franklin 4.05263157894737 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint." Daniel Webster 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue." Daniel Webster 4.16666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." Daniel Webster 4.33333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power." Daniel Webster 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you." Dick Cheney 3.53333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men." E.B. White 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist." Edmund Burke 4.33333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." Edmund Burke 4.6 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it." George Washington 4.66666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." George Washington 4.33333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." George Orwell 4.87755102040816 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." George Bernard Shaw 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands." George W. Bush 2.85 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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