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Show LIBERTY Liberty is life; slavery is death. Vinet. Nothing can "be so sweet as liberty. Sterne. - "God and liberty" is my benediction. benedic-tion. Voltaire. Liberty and law march hand in hand. John Adams. It is reason and virtue alone that can bestow liberty Shaftesbury. The cause of liberty is one and the same all over the world. George Thompson. Every man derives lijs right to life and liberty from God. Bingham. . Liberty unregulated by law, soon degenerates into anarchy. Millard Fillmore. Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. Washington. I will fight the battle of liberty as long as there is a shot in the locker. Paul Jones. It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life. Tousaint L'Ouverture. ' Liberty is a precious boon, and we do not always appreciate it as its true worth. John Russell Young. The spirit of liberty must be cherished, cher-ished, if we would elevate, purify and strengthen the fiber of the nation. Arnaud de L'Ariege. If liberty were to go on a pilgrimage pilgrim-age all over the earth, she would find a home in every house and a welcome wel-come in every heart. William Elder. Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights. Charles Sumner. Liberty is a principle; its comnuin-1 Ity is its security; exlusiveness is its doom . Kossuth. It is owing to the great advantage's advantag-e's of liberty that liber! y itself has been abused. Montesquieu. Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely, according to conscience, above all liberties. Milton. True liberty consists in the privilege privil-ege of enjoying our own rights, not in the destruction of the rights of others. Pinkard. Liberty knows nothing but victories. victor-ies. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; de-feat; but liberty dates from it, though Warren lay dead on the field. Phillips. The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately degener-ately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord. Tacitus. Tac-itus. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty Al-mighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death. Patrick Henry. If justice, good faith, gratitude, and all other qualities which ennoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the end of government, be the fruits of our establishments, the cause of liberty vill acquire a dignity and a lustre which it has never yet enjoyed. enjoy-ed. James Madison. We hold these truths to be self-evident; self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson. |