B. R. Ambedkar on liberty

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• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.

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• They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin1706–1790This was first used by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its “Reply to the Governor” (November 11, 1755) Reply to the Governor

• Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

  Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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