Liberty proverbs

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◆ Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

- Bob Marley99

◆ People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

- S?ren Kierkegaard99

◆ Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

- George Orwell99

◆ For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

- Nelson Mandela99

◆ I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

- James Baldwin99

◆ I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

- Theodore Roosevelt99

◆ This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

- Robert G. Ingersoll99

◆ The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

- Leon Trotsky99

◆ Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty

- Bible98

◆ Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy98