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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

I do not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.