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“Most people want security in this world, not liberty.”
Source: Minority Report
Source: It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest
“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.”
Source: The Road to Wigan Pier
Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
Source: The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine
“The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
Source: A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982
“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”
“Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”
Source: You learn by living
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944
“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
“Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.”
“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”
Source: Poems
Source: Democracy in America
“We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.”
“The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.”
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”
Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”