1187) If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz
speech to members of the Republican Party
in Massachusetts (4/18/1859)
posted by jr3000 [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1188) The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the palladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people. The power of entailing estates is more dangerous to liberty and republican government, than all the constitutions that can be written on paper, or even than a standing army.

Noah Webster
"A Citizen of America" (10/17/1787)
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1189) The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless. In such a case, the popular power would be likely to break in upon the rights of property, or else the influence of property to limit and control the exercise of popular power.

Daniel Webster
"First Settlement of New England" (12/22/1820)
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1190) The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.

Edmund Burke
letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (4/3/1777) [WQ]
posted by jr3000 [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1191) When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Charles Evans Hughes
address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, on the 150th
anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill (6/17/25)
posted by jr3000 [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1192) Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Mohandas K. Ghandi (widely attributed)
(1931)
posted by Michael Fuchs [IQM] (7/4/95)

1193) The Pledge of Allegiance says 'Liberty and Justice for All.' Which part of 'All' don't you understand?

Representative Pat Schroeder (widely attributed)
posted by Michael Fuchs [IQM] (7/4/95)