Quote by Daniel Webster
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. – Daniel Webster

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. – George Washington

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May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. – Peter Marshall

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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks. – Michelangelo Antonioni

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