Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves
Hugo Grotius
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ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already...
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CINDY SHEEHAN The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.
SHERYL LEE The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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LAWRENCE LESSIG We are not victims by nature...we are programmed to be victims...for good reason...if we truly embra...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destr...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISON Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The his...
WOODROW WILSON The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limi...
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NADIA BOULANGER The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but t...
NICOLAS CAGE The day for people to just give us things is over. We have to stand up for ourselves. We have to hel...
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WOODROW T. WILSON We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.
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ALAN MOORE The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
TED CRUZ Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
RONALD REAGAN Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rh...
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EMMA PAUL Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her...
EMMA PAUL Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They ...
LORI HANDELAND It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that w...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
THOMAS PAINE We have it in our power to begin the world over again
THOMAS PAINE Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few
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JEAN COCTEAU They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they ar...
JOHN TILLOTSON They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they ar...
JOHN TILLOTSON Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
JOHN CALHOUN The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighb...
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HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
IRVINE WELSH this summit, is not about Hugo Chavez.
STEPHEN HADLEY We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liber...
JOSEPH PULITZER We cannot save ourselves. Only God has the power to save us.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implie...
JOHN ADAMS She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled wi...
BRIAN SELZNICK In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the ...
SHARRON ANGLE The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
JOHN STEINBECK Hugo - alas!
ANDRE GIDE We just want to have a say over our own water and manage it ourselves, like we always have.
DELFINO GARCIA VELAZQUEZ Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON We need to work on things we have control over. We can't control what the power company does.
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ANN BEESON Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual w...
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WILLIAM BARCLAY We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
EDWARD GIBBON The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
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JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power.
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You have the power over me.
Asking with condescen...
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