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“It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.”

Today Cities Liberty New York Cold Dresses New York City Statues Torches Statue Of Liberty

Author:David Letterman

“We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.”

Pain Used Cities Liberty Player London Imprisonment City Of London

Author:Elizabeth I

“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”

Source: Social Justice and the City

“Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.”

People Ifs Thinking Whole Running Past Cities Liberty Streets Happenings Parks Statues Ecosystems Batteries Horatio Statue Of Liberty Nowhere To Go Central Park Ferry

Author:Andy Cohen

“Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.”

States Earth Nations Cities Liberty Ever After Resumes

Book:Leaves of Grass

Source: Leaves of Grass

“If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.”

People Ifs Men World Individual Nations Wish Cities Liberty Trouble Economic Lessons Economics Customers Welfare Provinces General Welfare

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“We took a fair bit of liberty with the story, but the basic premise of the film ["Selling Isobel" ] - a girl is kidnapped on the streets of a city and held captive for three days and two nights while various men show up and exploit her - is the exact truth.”

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Author:Rudolf Buitendach