O Liberté, que de crimes on commet en ton nom!
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O Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!
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Memoirs, Appendix; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), and in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922); used by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Essay on Mirabeau. The actual expression used is said to have been "O liberté, comme on t'a jouée!"—"O Liberty, how thou hast been played with!" Exclaimed when on 8 November 1798 Roland mounted the scaffold, and was tied to the fatal plank, lifting her eyes to the statue of Liberty, near which the guillotine was placed. Helen Maria Williams: Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, Vol. 1, London 1795. p. 201 books.googleMadame Roland (Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platiere)
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La liberté n'est pas un échange, c'est la liberté.
Andre Malraux
Those who follow orders to commit such crimes will be found and they will be punished. War crimes will be prosecuted. And it will be no excuse to say, 'I was just following orders.' Any official involved in such crimes will forfeit hope of amnesty or leniency with respect to past action.
Donald Rumsfeld
L'arbre de la liberté ne croit qu'arrosé par le sang des tyrans.
Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac
In life, events tend to follow patterns. People who commit crimes tend to be criminals, for example. Can anyone tell me any economists who have been convicted of violent sex crimes? Can anyone tell me of any heads of nonprofit international economic entities who have ever been charged and convicted of violent sexual crimes? Is it likely that just by chance this hotel maid found the only one in this category?
Ben Stein
No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.
Sonia Sotomayor
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