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Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and need never be in chains. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom and civilization.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.

A caged canary is safe but not free.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

After 100 years of trying, finally we passed health care for all Americans as a right for all - not just a privilege for a few. It honored the vows of our Founders: Of life, a healthier life; liberty; the freedom to pursue our own happinesses. ... We knew that ... this bill was ironclad constitutionally.

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

[ Alexis de] Tocqueville said it in 1835, and it's as true today as it was then: 'Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is more needed in democratic societies than in any other.'

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor will a libertarian advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.

All good things are wild and free.

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.