#bertie

The collar had restrained his winds but not killed them. They uncoiled from behind the shadows, ready to surround her, to lift her up, to carry her away with only Ariel’s silk-clad arms wrapped about her to keep her from falling. Spirare, they whispered to her like an incantation. Breathe us in. Bertie didn’t mean to, but she inhaled, and everything inside her was a spring morning, a rose opening its petals to the sun, the light coming through the wavering glass of an old, diamond-paned window. Tendrils of wind reached for Bertie with a coaxing hand. Release him, and he will love you. ↗

— Lisa Mantchev

#ariel #bertie #romance-novels #wind #love

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. ↗

— John Milton

#according #argue #conscience #freely #give

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#common #common sense #freedom #liberties #normal

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country. ↗

— Larry Craig

#civil #civil liberties #country #fundamental #i

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#enslave #human #human being #liberties #liberty

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#agitation #dissent #liberties #power #radicalism

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#foundation #founding #founding fathers #independence #liberties

In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#centuries #continue #declaration #enjoy #generations

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#bill of rights #create #designed #did #framers

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. ↗

— Andre Breton

#itself #liberties #liberty #nothing #take