#libert

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. ↗

— William Blake

#cannot #half #hate #human #human race

Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#food

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. ↗

— Will Durant

#chaos #civilization #dies #grows #liberty

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#around #daughters #fighting #freedoms #liberty

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#dependent #diffusion #education #founded #jefferson

And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. ↗

— John Boehner

#back #celebrate #constitution #earned #economic

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#could #exist #existed #god #human

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#dignity #freedom #heard #hope #i

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will. ↗

— John Acton

#both #condition #conscience #domains #duty

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty. ↗

— David Antin

#became #because #feeling #had #i