The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke

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Relinquishing freedom Freedom

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Edmund Burke

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Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1784 1780s 18th century

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Age of Enlightenment

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Philosopher Politician Writer

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire." 1784, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.

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A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation.

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English
Time
1790 1790s 18th century
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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

Another quote from the 1780s

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

Letter to John Adams, 1780

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Interesting times Benefits of adversity

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Time
1780 1780s 18th century
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Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Quincy Adams. 12 Jan. 1780.

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Adams, Abigail. Quoted in John Adams, written by David McCullough. Simon and Schuster, 2001.

Another quote about Freedom

The history of liberty has largely been the history of observance of procedural safeguards.

Felix Frankfurter

McNabb v. United States

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Felix Frankfurter
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McNabb v. United States
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Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion
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Legal writing
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English
Time
1943 1940s 20th century
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Frankfurter, Felix. United States, Supreme Court. McNabb v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 318, 1 Mar. 1943, pp. 339-349. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/318/332/.

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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

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Thomas Hobbes
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Leviathan
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English
Time
1651 1650s 17th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
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Second Annual Message to Congress
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Speech
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English
Time
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Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Annual Message to Congress." 1 Dec. 1862, US Congress, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.