#libert

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it. ↗

— John Thune

#blood #cloth #defending #died #flag

I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security. ↗

— Michael Hayden

#always #attacks #between #certainly #decide

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You ↗

— Brooke Bida

#ann-anarchsit #changeagents #libertarian-ann #love #new-age

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#hath #himself #his #liberty #life

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it. ↗

— David Hockney

#defend #i #i think #liberty #think

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#controls #democracy #individual #individual liberty #liberty

Due to state laws, the restaurant was nonsmoking, which as a nonsmoker pleases me, but as a Libertarian it pisses me off.
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— Jarod Kintz

#big-brother #choice #freedom #law #laws

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fears #government #liberty #people #tyranny

At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#again #bell #entered #few #fourth

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#established #faith #liberty #morality #nor