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To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.

Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it.

Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.

True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

Truth and news are not the same thing.

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers have objections the author must answer them or change the article to take reviewers' objections into account. Under the IPCC review process, the authors are at liberty to ignore criticisms.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.

War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

We [Americans] continue to be harangued by politicians about how Americans must fight this war because we're being attacked because we have freedoms and liberties and women in the workplace and a whole list of ephemera that have nothing to do with this war at all.

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

We are a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That's what makes us Americans. When we sign onto that belief, we sign onto the core American identity, and that's very deep in us.

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

We are gonna to have to choose as a nation between the homosexual agenda and freedom because the two cannot coexist. Every advance of the homosexual agenda, comes at the expense of liberty, particularly religious liberty.

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.