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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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"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Engrved on statue of liberty" »Emma Lazarus
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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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"I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one." »Cato the Elder
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"No statue has ever been put up to a critic." »Jean Sibelius
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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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"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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"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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"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." »Jean Sibelius
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"The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct." »Demophilus
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"The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct." »Demophilus
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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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"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic" »Jean Sibelius
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!" »Jean Sibelius, quoted in Bengt de Torne "Sibelius: A Close-Up" 1937
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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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"Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has." »Randolph Bourne
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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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"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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"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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"liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain." »John F. Kennedy
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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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"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." »Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"
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"Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us" »Orison Swett Marden
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"Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty" »Jeseph Joubert
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"Too much liberty corrupts us all." »Terence
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