#libert

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. ↗

— Learned Hand

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Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed. ↗

— Michael Korda

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One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties. ↗

— William Weld

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Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. ↗

— Frances Wright

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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny. ↗

— Frances Wright

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But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood? ↗

— Francis Wright

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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read, or see. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

#anarcho-capitalism #anarchy #classical-liberalism #constitution #free-market