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The higher your station, the less your liberty.


Sallust
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Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis D. Brandeis
Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.
Jonathan Turley
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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.


William Dean Howells
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A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.


Francis Picabia
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.


Arthur Conan Doyle
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.


George Bernard Shaw
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This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
Christopher Dawson
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato
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Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
Elizabeth Gilbert
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton
For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
Tony Abbott
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
George Berkeley
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Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
Billy Collins
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Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.


Leon Kass
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.


Carlo Collodi
Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's.
Jodi Kantor
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Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
Mitt Romney
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
Steve Earle