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Letter "L" » liberties
«In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.»
«If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy»
Author: Marquis De Lafayette
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American people, clergy, liberties
«It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.»
Author: Molly Ivins
| Keywords:
constitution, established, extend, extend to, History of, In America, liberties, struggle, The History, The History of
«Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.»
Author: Ann Coulter
| Keywords:
civil, civil liberties, civil liberty, criminals, defender, defenders, Liberals, liberties, provided, The Defenders
«If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens little if at all inferior to them in discipline and»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
| About:
Circumstances,
Government
| Keywords:
Army of, Body of, formidable, inferior, liberties, oblige
«It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Government,
Liberty
| Keywords:
emergencies, grave, liberties, maintain
«Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Civil rights,
Justice,
Liberty,
Mankind,
Men,
Morality
| Keywords:
appetites, civil liberties, civil liberty, disposition, liberties, qualified, rapacity
«Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure that he is seldom promoted because he has been jealous of the liberties of the citizen»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
an American, attorney, attorneys, congressman, congressmen, district, districts, district attorney, jealous, liberties, promoted, The District, Washington
«How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
absurd, demand, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, liberties
«If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
gave, Give Me Liberty, holy, holy war, independence, liberties, saved, There was
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