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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
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George Washington
American
President
Born:
Feb 22
,
1732
Died:
Dec 14
,
1799
Topics
Liberty
,
Power
,
Ruins
,
Easily
,
Arbitrary
,
Arbitrary Power
,
Abuse
,
Most
,
Established
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Time
Refreshed
Liberty
Tree
Tyrants
Must
Blood
From Time To Time
Patriots
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness
Life
Freedom
Rights
Liberty
Unalienable
Men
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Equal
Self-Evident
Truths
Endowed
Hold
Created
Certain
Creator
Among
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington
Liberty
Plant
Rapid
Rapid Growth
Take
Begins
Root
Growth
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.
John F. Kennedy
Success
Survival
Patriotism
Liberty
Burden
Oppose
Nation
Pay
Every
Assure
Meet
Foe
Bear
Shall
Price
Support
Wishes
Know
Well
Friend
Any
Whether
Us
Ill
Hardship
Every Nation
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson
Rights
Equality
Liberty
Law
Will
Action
Add
Others
Our
Tyrant
Rightful
Drawn
Individual
Equal
Equal Rights
Because
Within
Around
Always
Limits
According
Often
Us
Violates
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Liberty
Safety
Neither
Temporary
Give
Obtain
Nor
Up
Essential
Little
Who
Deserve
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.
Thomas Paine
Oppression
Enemy
Liberty
Will
Own
Duty
Guard
Secure
Must
Would
He
Reach
Make
Himself
His
Precedent
Even
Violates
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom
Freedom
Liberty
Thought
Freedom Of Speech
Without
Public
Thing
Speech
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy
Socialism
Equality
Liberty
Word
Nothing
One Word
Seeks
Restraint
Common
Difference
While
Notice
Servitude
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil Gibran
Life
Liberty
Spirit
Like
Without
Body
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