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“What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.”

People Littles Term Freedom Liberty Break Broken Higher Notion Offense Disagreeable Saying And Doing

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.”

Wells Hate Freedom Space Liberty Break Air Rounds Spread Breathe Graves Native Cracks Horizon Break Through Domes

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.”

Men Mind Long Seems Spirit Liberty Break Limits Flames Sparks Coercion

Book:Challenge Liberty

Source: Challenge Liberty

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

“The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of their liberties; not to oppress an individual or a few, but to break down the fences of a free constitution, and deprive the people at large of all share in the government, and all the checks by which it is limited.”

People Littles Government Individual Liberty Break Doubt Plans Share Revolution Constitution Checks Resistance Oppression Instance Jealous Sensible Rulers Fence Breaking Down Jealous People

Author:John Adams

“If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.”

Ifs Thinking Want Reason Liberty Break Worst Fool Judgment Mad Bounds Sake Restraint Examination Madmen Freeman

Author:John Locke

“The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!”

Giving Doe Law Liberty Break License

Author:William McKinley

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”