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I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

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Jimmy:
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic of which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all... [looks down and says faster]
Jimmy:
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic of which it stands one nation under God indivisible.

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Will:
Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin', 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.

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Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.

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We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

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No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

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Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.

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Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

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Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

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Guy:
So where are you from?
Alan Joseph Zuckerman:
Forest Park.
Guy:
[surprised] Forest Park?
Alan Joseph Zuckerman:
Yeah, off Liberty Heights.
Guy:
That's, uh, Jewish, right?
Alan Joseph Zuckerman:
[nervous pause] Damn near, yeah... Seems, uh, more's moving in too, y'know? So it's really... it's really getting that way.

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Marv Loach:
What department is that again?
Kent Mansley:
Frankly, I'm not at liberty to divulge the particulars of the agency I work for, and all that that implies.
Marv Loach:
You mean, national security?
Kent Mansley:
Let me put it this way. Every so often things happen that can't be rationalized in a conventional way. People wanna know their government has a response. I am that response.

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

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Guard at Liberty Gate:
[after catching James coming back into the camp after having snuck out] What were you doing out there?
Staff Sergeant William James:
Visiting a whorehouse.
Guard at Liberty Gate:
Okay. If I let you back in, will you tell me where it is exactly?

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The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect.

More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation.

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Sly:
[sly has a plan to escape from babyco but it involves hiding in a moving cart of dirty diapers. He is about to jump into the cart when he sighs and says] Well give me liberty or give me death. [sly holds his nose and jumps into the cart of diapers and gags]
Sly:
I should've chosen death... ugh.

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Liberty 24 Pilot:
[as the President reaches Liberty Two Four] Liberty Two Four is changing call signs - Liberty Two Four is now Air Force One!

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Bill:
Newspapers take more liberty with the fact than E! True Hollywood Story.

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[Listening skeptically to German propaganda coming over a loudspeaker]
Captain Miller:
"The Statue of Liberty is kaput" - that's disconcerting.

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It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores.... I am convinced that the luckiest of geographical circumstances and the best of laws cannot maintain a constitution in spite of mores, whereas the latter can turn even the most unfavorable circumstances...to advantage.... If I have not succeeded in making the reader feel the importance I attach to the practical experience of the Americans, to their habits, laws, and, in a word, their mores, I have failed in the main object of my work. -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in American

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Cmndt. Dominique:
We took the liberty of calling your tailor. We thought perhaps we would learn something.
Regina Lambert:
Did you?
Cmndt. Dominique:
Yes. Your dress is ready.

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The Emperor:
[to the Senate] In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society which I assure you will last for ten thousand years. [Senate fills with enormous applause]
Padmé:
[to Bail Organa] So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.

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Irv:
Our Father, who art in Calgary, Bobsled be thy name. Thy kingdom come, gold medals won, on Earth as it is in Turn Seven. With Liberty and Justice for Jamaica and Haile Selassie. Amen.

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

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Lisa Simpson:
This town is just one piece of trash away from a toxic nightmare! But I knew you wouldn't listen. So I took the liberty of pouring water from the lake in all your drinking glasses! [everyone spits out their water in disgust]
Moe:
See, this is why we should hate kids!

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Sam Witwicky:
What is Sector 7? Answer me!
Agent Simmons:
I ask the questions round here, not you, young man!
Mikaela:
All right, how did you know about the aliens?
Sam Witwicky:
Where did you take my parents?
Agent Simmons:
I am not at liberty to discuss... [Sam snatches his badge away]
Agent Simmons:
Hey, you touch me, that's a federal offense!
Sam Witwicky:
[holding it up] "Do whatever you want and get away with it" badge, right?
Agent Simmons:
Brave now, all of a sudden with his big alien friends standing over there.

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...

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Dobel:
I took the liberty a couple weeks ago of ordering you a little present.
Jerry Falk:
What?
Dobel:
Well, they're having a sale here on surplus Russian Army riffles.
Jerry Falk:
What?
Dobel:
Well suppose you're home one night, you know, in bed masturbating and some guys try to break in. You need protection.
Jerry Falk:
No! I just dial 9-1-1.
Dobel:
Have you ever dialed 9-1-1? It's like trying to get a mortgage.

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Sarah Silverman:
Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or something.

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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

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Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.

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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it.

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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

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Gladys:
[after installing a lot of traps] What about this one, this Depelter Turbo?
Dwayne:
That's a contraband item, ma'am, as it is illegal in every state, [with his hand over his heart]
Dwayne:
except Texas.
Gladys:
I don't care if this violates the Geneva Conventions, I want it.
Dwayne:
I thought you might, so I took the liberty of installing it for you. [as he tosses a stuffed bear in it]
Dwayne:
Adios, animal infenstation.
RJ:
[it traps it] AHHHHH!
Gladys:
[we see it in a cage, with outside burned off] Ohhh, very nice.

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Jonathan Lundy:
Where the hell have you been? I took the liberty of ordering you another Scotch.
Daniel:
Bully!

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To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propatation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

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There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity

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You're so full of it, darlin'.

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Mac MacGuff:
Liberty Bell, if you put one more Baco on that potato, I'm gonna kick your little monkey butt.

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Jim Norton:
I think the Statue of Liberty could advertise douche products: "Just because your standing in water all day doesn't mean you have to smell like fish."

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Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.

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Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states --

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Scary Caller #30:
How can a slut be beautiful? The Mona Lisa is beautiful, the Statue of Liberty is beautiful, the Grand Canyon, the first day of spring, a new fallen snow-that's beauty, but a slut is just slutty, right?

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

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It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.

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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

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Victor Cardell:
What would you think the Statue of Liberty was if you happened upon it standing in a field, no explanatory plaque included?

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The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand?

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It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.

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Josh Whitney:
I made it all up.
Alison:
Even the Liberty Maid?
Josh Whitney:
Yes, I got your hair and red hat off a juice box.
Alison:
Lord almighty, I've met my maker.

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Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice can not sleep forever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!

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His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.

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It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

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