Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [...] and the like.

William O. Douglas

Tags: liberty freedom government control privacy corporations encroachment surveillance corporate-culture



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Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

John F. Kennedy

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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Benjamin Franklin

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Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.

Neil Gaiman

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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Tags: liberty freedom winning



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A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

Ronald Reagan

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I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

Ronald Reagan

Tags: liberty scope-of-government limited-government



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If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill

Tags: liberty philosophy majority-v-minority



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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Leon Trotsky

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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

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