#lib

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#behooves #case #change #circumstances #conscience

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#degree #exposed #i #inconveniences #liberty

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#book #books #capital #case #constitute

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#been #country #every #had #hostile

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#association #believe #everything #free #hardcore

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. ↗

— David Johansen

#irish #librarian #mother #new #new york

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them. ↗

— Elton John

#action #afford #against #because #cases

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis. ↗

— Elton John

#fabulous #gift #had #instrument #jerry

That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#best #bush #case #enough #good

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#just #lib #surrounded #vacuum #vast