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Quotes about liberty
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A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. (Tubman Harriet)
Liberty has no crueler enemy than license. (Tubman Harriet)
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment. (Tubman Harriet)
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity -- for where will the stone go, once it is quarried? (Tubman Harriet)
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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. (Tubman Harriet)
It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy. (Tubman Harriet)
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. (Tubman Harriet)
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave. (Tubman Harriet)
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. (Tubman Harriet)
Old England liberty -- to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress. (Tubman Harriet)
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. (Tubman Harriet)
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed. (Tubman Harriet)
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world. (Tubman Harriet)
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. (Tubman Harriet)
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. (Tubman Harriet)
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint. (Tubman Harriet)
It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature. (Tubman Harriet)
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. (Tubman Harriet)
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. (Tubman Harriet)
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. (Tubman Harriet)
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. (Tubman Harriet)
The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties. (Tubman Harriet)
Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. (Tubman Harriet)
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. (Tubman Harriet)
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves. (Tubman Harriet)
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