liberty Quotes

“Let us be clear at the outset that the liberty of individuals to carry on their business should not be abrogated unless the larger interests of the many are concerned.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

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“Liberty . . . is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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“Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“Not only that, my style was too erratic and hard to pigeonhole for the radio, and songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different...”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

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“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;—the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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“I believe, for one, that you cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil which is not native to it.”

― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

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“It is, that human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may...”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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