“Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.” — Wendell Willkie, One World
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“LIBERTY, n.: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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“A free press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.” — Sir Winston Churchill, “You Get It In Black And White,” Colliers (1935-12-28)
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“True liberty is founded upon a lively sense of the rights of others and a fighting conviction that the rights of others must be maintained.” — William Allen White, “Duty in a Democracy,” commencement address at Northwestern (1937-06-12)
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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
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“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; — the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.” — Floyd Dell, Were You Ever a Child?
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“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” — Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928)
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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell, George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography
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“All errors which he is likely to commit against advice and warning, are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him to what they deem his good.” — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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