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“Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.”

Men Should May Country Found Liberty Steps He Man Abuse Wine Errors Deny Drunk Unjust Unwise Supposition

Book:Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell: And of His Sons, Richard and Henry

Source: Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell: And of His Sons, Richard and Henry

“Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.”

Way May Dream Opportunity Liberty Steps Gone Doubt Records Worst Arms Lamps Hoping For The Best Worst Fear

Book:The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.”

“The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in, and helps him catch and fleece his victims. The old plea of despotism, that liberty is unsafe, reappears now in the mistaken notion that competition is hostile to labor.”

States Helping Liberty Steps Survival Labor Victim Competition Notion Inevitable Capitalist Mistaken Powerless Hostile Despotism Survival Of The Fittest Unsafe Fleece

Book:The Collected Works of Ezra H. Heywood

Source: The Collected Works of Ezra H. Heywood

“Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.”

Men Certain Individual Social Forget Liberty Steps Every Step Individual Liberty Social Being

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.”

World Needs Order Liberty Steps Imagine Something Better

Author:Bruce Mau

“Cognitive liberty begins at home, behind your eyes and between your ears. The first act of liberation is to step forward, and be counted as one of us.”

Firsts Home Eye Behinds Liberty Steps Ears Liberation Cognitive Steps Forward

Author:Mark Pesce

“Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.”

“The state should avoid all solicitude for the positive welfare of its citizens, and not proceed a step further than is necessary for their mutual security and their protection against foreign enemies. It should impose restrictions on freedom for no other purpose.”

Should States Purpose Liberty Steps Enemy Security Citizens Protection Welfare Mutual Restriction Solicitude

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt