Liberty

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We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
 John Webster
 The White Devil, 1612

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
 John Stuart Mill
 On Liberty, 1859

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
 Dolores Ibarruri
 1936

Gandhi had the advantage of battling a nation that believed in the rule of law. If India had been a German colony rather than British, Gandhi would have died unknown.
 Guy Strickland
 1998

O liberty! O liberty! what crimes are committed in thy name!
 Mme Roland
 1847

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose, Nothin' ain't worth nothin', but it's free.
 Kris Kristofferson
 Me and Bobby McGee, 1969

Liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed.
 Vladimir Lenin
 1936

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
 Mahatma Gandhi
 Non-Violence, 1949

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
 Charles Peguy
 Basic Verities, 1943

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
 Wm Ralph Inge
 End of an Age, 1948

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
 Alexander Solzhenitsyn
 The First Circle, 1968

Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 The Social Contract, 1762

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
 Samuel Johnson
 Bravery of the English Common Soldier, 1760

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes
 Schenck v US, 1919

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.
 John Philpot Curran
 1790

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
 Patrick Henry
 speech in VA, 1775

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
 Thomas Jefferson
 1787

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
 G B Shaw
 Man and Superman, 1903

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