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Indeed, that `protected freedom` is what we call liberty.
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Man fancies that he has freedom, but if he would use the word Loyalty instead of Liberty, he would be nearer the truth, since it is by obedience to the laws of life and truth and beauty that he attains to what he calls liberty.
The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913
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Hence it is misunderstood by the moderns, who imagine that romance would exist most perfectly in a complete state of what they call liberty.
Heretics 1905
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Consider, again, the truly fraternal relation between our obligations to God and what we call our liberty.
Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876
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Here was a people protected from all serious misfortune, relieved of all serious anxieties, and deprived of what we call our liberty.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Medici, into an orator who tickled the ears of the people blatant for some unknown good which they called liberty.
Romola George Eliot 1849
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Words like freedom of speech do not define themselves, nor does the word liberty.
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Words like freedom of speech do not define themselves, nor does the word liberty.
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I don't understand why the government of Australia have decide to be banned the online adult games . for me this is a violation of the expression liberty.
"Second Life, online adult games to be banned outright in Australia" - ??? Bettina Tizzy 2009
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To do away with this imputation, it is only necessary to understand the meaning of the word liberty.
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