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Letter "L" » Liberty
«For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time»
Author: George Sutherland
| About:
Liberty,
Memory
| Keywords:
carved, epitaph, epitaphs, possessors, saddest, saving, stretch, stretch forth, vanished
«Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Jealousy,
Liberty
| Keywords:
approaches, downright, guard, inevitably, jealous, jewel, ruined, suspect, unfortunately
«For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| About:
Liberty,
Life
| Keywords:
devoted, Human resources, Human rights, Inhabitants, nourishment, nuclear, resources, right to the pursuit of happiness, The Pursuit of Happiness
«Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties»
«Give me liberty or give me death.»
«He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Enemies,
Liberty
| Keywords:
establishes, guard, opposition, precedent, secure, violates, violating
«If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Liberty,
Terrorism,
War
| Keywords:
barbarians, The Barbarians
«If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.»
«Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.»
«For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree»
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