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Quotes about liberty
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. (Tubman Harriet)
Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. (Tubman Harriet)
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. (Tubman Harriet)
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. (Tubman Harriet)
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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. (Tubman Harriet)
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding. (Tubman Harriet)
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. (Tubman Harriet)
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. (Tubman Harriet)
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. (Tubman Harriet)
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion. (Tubman Harriet)
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. (Tubman Harriet)
Peace is liberty in tranquillity. (Tubman Harriet)
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. (Tubman Harriet)
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. (Tubman Harriet)
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. (Tubman Harriet)
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (Tubman Harriet)
They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Tubman Harriet)
Where liberty is, there is my country. (Tubman Harriet)
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. (Tubman Harriet)
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. (Tubman Harriet)
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. (Tubman Harriet)
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. (Tubman Harriet)
Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty. (Tubman Harriet)
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion. (Tubman Harriet)
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. (Tubman Harriet)
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