Liberty

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LIBERTY: If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George Orwell, English writer, 1903-1950Disabilities: The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)
LIBERTY: Liberty without wisdom and virtue is the greatest of all possible evils. (Edmund Burke, Irish statesman who served in the British Parliament, author, orator, and political philosopher, 1729-1797)
LIBERTY: If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, 1903-1950)
LIBERTY: We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. (Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, 1892-1954)
LIBERTY: It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people. (Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American professor and lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1882-1965)
LIBERTY: Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have. (Henry Emerson Fosdick, U.S. liberal pastor, 1878-1969)
LIBERTY: I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say ‘No’, where it is dangerous to say ‘No’. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
LIBERTY: The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. (Bertrand Barere, French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the most prominent leaders of the French Revolution, 1755-1841)
LIBERTY: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. (John Philpot Curran, Irish orator, politician, lawyer and judge,1750-1817)
LIBERTY: Give me liberty, or give me death. (Patrick Henry, attorney, planter, orator, and one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1736-1799)
LIBERTY: Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties. (John Milton, English poet, 1608-1674)
LIBERTY: Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. (William Allen White, newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement, 1868-1944)
LIBERTY: Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. (Harry Emerson Fosdick, U.S. prominent liberal minister of the early 20th century, 1878-1969)