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Liberty Quotes

Freedom is never fully settled.

A recurring warning runs through this page - that stripping freedom from people we oppose puts everyone's freedom at risk, since the same power can later be turned against those we love. Related reading continues in Freedom.

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Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

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Everybody in the world is - is ready for liberty. It's a question of how you do it.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

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What the U.S. should do consistently is to support the liberty of the Egyptian people.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Abraham Lincoln

Emotion Quotes

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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. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are...

Abraham Lincoln

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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Abraham Lincoln

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

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Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.

Quotes by Yvette Clarke

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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

Freedom Quotes

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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

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The set also includes a personal angle, noting how anxious anyone would feel with their own liberty on the line, alongside the classic idea that liberty survives only through constant vigilance. See Power or Identity for more.