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"Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"liberty has never come from the 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." »Nadia Boulanger
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"Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship." »Alfred A. Montapert
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"The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest." »John Winthrop
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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." »George Washington
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"If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making" »Herbert Spencer
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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller
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"The Statue of liberty is not that monument's name. It is liberty Enlightening the World." »Deane Jordan
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"A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment." »Walter Lippman
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"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." »Louis D. Brandeis
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"The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy." »George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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"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." »John Peter Zenger
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"O liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name" »Jeanne-Marie Roland
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts." »Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain." »John F. Kennedy
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"Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos." »Archbishop Ireland
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"liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain." »John F. Kennedy
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"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it" »Jonathan Winters
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"A ship in harbor is safe--- but that is not what ships are for." »John A. Shedd
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"Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." »Samuel Johnson
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"A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for." »John A. Shedd
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"The only safe ship in a storm is leadership." »Faye Wattleton
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"A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." »Henrik Ibsen
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"liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency." »James Madison, Federalist 10
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"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship." »Louisa May Alcott
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"A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder." »Chester William Nimitz
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"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." »Louisa May Alcott
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