The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
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The army is here, your liberty is assured.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal"[sic]
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1863 November 18, Abraham Lincoln, Dedicatory Remarks (Gettysburg Address)(Nicolay_draft), near Soldiers' National Cemetery, →LCCN, Nicolay draft, page 1:
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But as the philosopher Isaiah Berlin sagely pointed out, liberty for wolves means death to lambs.
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2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, quoting Isaiah Berlin, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:
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[Edmund] Burke continued to fight for liberty later on in life. He backed Americans in their campaign for freedom from British taxation. He supported Catholic freedoms and freer trade with Ireland, in spite of his constituents’ ire. He wanted more liberal laws on the punishment of debtors.
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2014 July 5, “Freedom fighter”, in The Economist, volume 412, number 8894: