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Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart— The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consignd— To fetters and damp vaults dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.Lord Byron, Sonnet, introductory to Prisoner of Chillon
— Liberty love
When Liberty from Greece withdrew, And oer the Adriatic flew, To where the Tiber pours his urn, She struck the rude Tarpeian rock; Sparks were kindled by the shock— Again thy fires began to burn.Henry Francis Cary, The Power of Eloquence
— Liberty power
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there.Samuel Taylor Coleridge, France, An Ode, V
— Liberty love
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, Book II, line 291
— Liberty love
Variant: Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds.Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
— Liberty good
This has sometimes been paraphrased as: Suspicion is a virtue if it is in the interests of the good of the people.
— Liberty time
Libertas, inquit, populi quem regna coercent, Libertate perit.The liberty of the people, he says, whom power restrains unduly, perishes through liberty. Lucanus, Pharsalia, Book III. 146
— Liberty people
Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II, Satire VI, line 220
— Liberty book
It is incorrect to think of liberty as synonymous with unrestrained action. Liberty does not and cannot include any action, regardless of sponsorship, which lessens the liberty of a single human being. To argue contrarily is to claim that liberty can be composed of liberty negations, patently absurd. Unrestraint carried to the point of impairing the liberty of others is the exercise of license, not liberty. To minimize the exercise of license is to maximize the area of liberty. Ideally, government would restrain license, not indulge in it; make it difficult, not easy; disgraceful, not popular. A government that does otherwise is licentious, not liberal.Leonard E. Read, The Freeman
— Liberty men
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.Sallust Gaius Sallustius Crispus in Histories
— Liberty men
Why, headstrong liberty is lashd with woe; Theres nothing, situate under heavens eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act II, scene 1, line 15
— Liberty art
Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty!Tobias Smollett, Ode to Independence, line 5
— Liberty god
Variant translation: The last end of the state is not to dominate men, nor to restrain them by fear; rather it is so to free each man from fear that he may live and act with full security and without injury to himself or his neighbor. The end of the state, I repeat, is not to make rational beings into brute beasts and machines. It is to enable their bodies and their minds to function safely. It is to lead men to live by, and to exercise, a free reason; that they may not waste their strength in hatred, anger and guile, nor act unfairly toward one another. Thus the end of the state is really liberty.
— Liberty fear
Behold! in Libertys unclouded blaze We lift our heads, a race of other days.Charles Sprague, Centennial Ode, Stanza 22
— Liberty liberty
Libertatem natura etiam mutis animalibus datam.Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.Tacitus, Annales AD 117, IV. 17
— Liberty nature
Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.Tertullian, p. 380
— Liberty soul
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts — the cradle of its infancy, and the Divine source of its claims.Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 379
— Liberty christianity
The moment you accept Gods ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.Henry Clay Trumbull, p. 378
— Liberty life
That religion which holds that all men are equal in the sight of the great Father will not refuse to acknowledge that all citizens are equal in the sight of the law.Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 379
— Liberty religion
Our history has shown us that insecurity threatens liberty. Yet, if our liberties are curtailed, we lose the values that we are struggling to defend.The 9/11 Commission Report by the U. S. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
— Liberty history
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— Liberty mission
But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
— Liberty people

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