#libert

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? ↗

— James Madison

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Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#freedom #let us #liberty #our #prize

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#licentiousness #men #strike #term #under

The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working. ↗

— James McGreevey

#been #civil #civil liberties #democracy #expand

All government, of course, is against liberty. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Most people want security in this world, not liberty. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#banner #before #communism #feelings #libertarian

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

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