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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. (Acton John)
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. (Acton John)
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. (Acton John)
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. (Acton John)
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. (Acton John)
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. (Acton John)
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. (Acton John)
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (Acton John)
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. (Acton John)
We are as great as our belief in human liberty -- no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves. (Acton John)
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. (Acton John)
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. (Acton John)
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. (Acton John)
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. (Acton John)
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. (Acton John)
License they mean when they cry liberty. (Acton John)
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments. (Acton John)
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. (Acton John)
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity. (Acton John)
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. (Acton John)
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty. (Acton John)
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