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Maria Montessori

The pedagogical method of observation has for its base the liberty of the child, and liberty is activity... Discipline must come through liberty.

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D. Z. Phillips, fully Dewi Zephaniah Phillips

Clearly a man’s commitment to God shows itself in the language he uses, not only about God, but about the world and his general behavior.

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Silvio Pellico

Of all the duties, the love of truth, with faith and constancy in it, ranks first and highest. Truth is God. To love God and to love truth are one and the same.

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There can be no patriotism without liberty, no liberty without virtue, no virtue without citizens; create citizens, and you have everything you need; without them, you will have nothing but debased slaves, from the rulers of the State downwards. To form citizens is not the work of a day; and in order to have men it is necessary to educate them when they are children.

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Alexis de Tocqueville, fully Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot.

Faith | Liberty | Wisdom | Govern |

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Paul Valéry, fully Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry

It must be admitted that liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

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George Washington Truett

There is a vast difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration is a concession; liberty is a right; toleration is a matter of expediency; liberty is a matter of principle; toleration is a grant of man; liberty is a gift of God.

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John Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton, fully John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

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Willard M. Wilson

The preservation of liberty is a contest, but it is not a spectator sport. We cannot remain on the sidelines while professionals play the game for us.

Liberty | Play | Wisdom |

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Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson

An innate knowledge, or rather an acquired ignorance, suggests to it straightaway the step to be taken, the decisive act, the unanswerable word. Yet effort remains indispensable, endurance and perseverance likewise. But they come of themselves, they develop of their own accord, in a soul acting and acted upon, whose liberty coincides with the divine activity.

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Eleazar ben Ya'ir

Life, not death, is man's misfortune. It is death which gives liberty to the soul and permits it to depart to its own pure abode, there to be free from all calamity.

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Julius Seelye Bixler

Religion is devoted and loyal commitment to the best that reason and insight can discover. The liberal understands what loyalty means as the authoritarian never can.