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“Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.”

Two Hands Fighting Asks Heaven Liberty Couple Victory Blessing Eternal Remains Swear Undertakings Eternal Love

Book:The Physiology of Marriage

Source: The Physiology of Marriage

“Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.”

Knows Liberty Fields Victory Lays Defeat Soldier Hills Bunkers Bunker Hill

Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.”

Individual Liberty Victory Authority Gains Defeat Rescue Judicial Convicts Individual Freedom

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty.”

Ifs Courses Asks Liberty Victory Gains Permission

Book:Open Confession to a Man from a Woman

Source: Open Confession to a Man from a Woman

“When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.”

People Term Liberty Masters Victory Insolent

Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

“Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference...instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.”

Christ Differences Liberty Victory Quiet Weakness Bondage Sufficiency Restful

Author:Hudson Taylor

“The Scalia seat is defense. We're not going to get any better than Justice Scalia. The best we can do is preserve constitutional victories like upholding the Second Amendment, like protecting religious liberty. But we're not going to get any better.”

Can Do Religious Justice Liberty Victory Defense Preserves Seats Amendments Second Amendment Religious Liberty Justice Scalia

Author:Ted Cruz

“Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.”

Ifs Long Important War Today Liberty Enemy Victory Succeed Protect Hatred Committed Planning Plot Motivated Defeated Long Road

Author:Timothy Murphy

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

Source: The Gathering Storm

“Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.”

Liberty Victory Civil Rights Civil Liberties

Author:Ira Glasser

“With almost no time to decide, they [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. And they did it as citizens. They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.”

“What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.”

“It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.”

Men World Given Natural Liberty One Thing Brother Victory Men And Women Gains Supreme Midst Brotherhood Reign Differentiation

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men were sentenced to death because they believed in a better future; because they had not lost their faith in the ultimate victory of liberty and justice!”

Knows Men World Believe May States Death Faith Belief Lost Justice Liberty Judging Victory Future Ultimate Court Eight Sentences Honour Anarchist Better Future Illinois Liberty And Justice

Author:August Spies