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Liberty Quotes - Page 46

How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

Jeremy Bentham (1844). “Benthamiana: Or Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works”, p.95

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.124, University of Virginia Press

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.212

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Edward Gibbon (1839). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.127

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.338, Cambridge University Press

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Earl Warren's speech at Columbia University, January 14, 1954.