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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Bertrand Russell

Capitalism

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Bertrand Russell

Liberty

Right

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

John Ruskin

Liberty

Restraint

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Benjamin Rush

Virtue

Liberty

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

People

Liberty

May

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Theodore Roosevelt

Liberty

Order

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of liberty.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

Tom Ridge

Liberty

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Ernest Renan

Progress

Liberty

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.