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The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death. -- Alexander Hamilton
The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life. -- Amartya Sen
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. -- Sarah Fielding
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. -- James Madison
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. -- Wendell Willkie
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. -- Wendell Willkie
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. -- James Madison
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. -- James Madison
He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty. -- William Blake
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. -- Alan K. Simpson
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty? -- Patrick Henry
The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole. -- John Peter Zenger
For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. -- Wendell Willkie
Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government, and the immediate cause of faction, sedition, civil wars, and the total loss of liberty. It was, therefore, universally regarded as a vice, and was an object of declamation to all satyrists, and severe moralists. -- David Hume
Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty. -- Angela Carter
Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here or there, is a small price to pay...The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so. -- Ron Paul
Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first. -- John Longenecker
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny. -- Nancy Pearcey

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