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«To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Liberty
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duties, humanity, liberty, renounce, renounces, renouncing, rights, right to liberty, surrender
«The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.»
«Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Action
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«The history of liberty is a history of resistance.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
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History of, liberty, resistance, The History, The History of
«The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.)»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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bondage, brings, liberty, Nothing More, On Liberty, pain and pleasure, too much
«The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Democracy
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country, defends, democrat, His country, liberty, mankind, nonviolent, purely, the true, ultimately
«The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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conscience, haven, havens, liberty, sacred
«Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
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«The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Liberty
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blood, from time to time, liberty, patriots, refreshed, refreshes, refreshing, The Patriot, Tree, tyrants
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