Liberty Quotes

"Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history." -- A. J. P. Taylor [Alan John Percivale Taylor] (1906-1990) British historian
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"Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would. Nor is there anything in the common law of England inconsistent with that right." -- John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President Source: Boston Gazette, September 5, 1763, reprinted in The Works of John Adams 438 (Charles F. Adams ed., 1851).
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"We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral." -- Margaret Thatcher (1925-) British Prime Minister (1979–1990)
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