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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. – Benjamin Franklin

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

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Ones liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor. – Frederick Farrar

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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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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. – William Blake

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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. – John Muir

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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. – Henry David Thoreau

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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

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