Our liberty cannot be taken ...

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.
Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.
 Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Quotes from the same author

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.
 Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.
 Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.
 Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.
 Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness; and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more.
 Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke