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"...the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free."	Henry Louis Mencken
"None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license."	John Milton
"Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind."	John Milton
"If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual's firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman's vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place? To be armed is to secure one's right to representation."	Thomas Mincher
"The elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapés of knowledge and never had their fill."	Ted Morgan
"Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions."	James X. Mullen
"Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision."	V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."	Jawaharial Nehru
"The good teacher ... discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before."	Stephen Neill
"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary."	Kathleen Norris
"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
"The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons. But the liberty, the only liberty, I mean is a liberty connected with order: that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle."	Edmund Burke
"The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another man's right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar."	Abraham Lincoln
"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same name-liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable names-liberty and tyranny."	Abraham Lincoln
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."	Benjamin Franklin
"Where liberty is, there is my country."	Benjamin Franklin
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."	Kahlil Gibran
"You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: "All hope abandon ye who enter here."	George Bernard Shaw
"It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."	Thomas Jefferson
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