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Quote by Margot Asquith
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. – Margot Asquith

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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs –apart from discernment –a certain greatness to find him. – Margot Asquith

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There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith. – Margot Asquith

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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. – Henry Adams

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. – Edmund Burke

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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. – Edmund Burke

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