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It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

Margaret Fuller

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Milton Friedman

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Benjamin Franklin

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Felix Frankfurter

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.