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“Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.”

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Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a mouth large enough to swallow any church, and from that time forward the religious people will be citing that remark of the politician to substantiate the inspiration of the Scriptures.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to generations of immigrants. One of these immigrants was a poet-writer named Ameen Rihani. Gazing at her lamp held high, he wondered whether her sister might be erected in the lands of his Arab forefathers. Here is how he put it: "When will you turn your face toward the East, oh Liberty?"”

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Author:George W. Bush

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

“That's really the big inspiration of this movie. It's really looking at a man who's really showing all the traits and all the characteristics of the classic patriarchal country, where he's of military power, he's the king of the hill at home, as well as in the streets. He has the liberty to live where he wants.”

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Author:Oren Moverman

“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”