#libert

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#american people #downward #each #first #leaders

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#liberty #paradox #power #rights #weakness

Give me liberty or give me death. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#give #give me #give me liberty #liberty #me

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ↗

— Patrick Henry

#death

It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores.... I am convinced that the luckiest of geographical circumstances and the best of laws cannot maintain a constitution in spite of mores, whereas the latter can turn even the most unfavorable circumstances...to advantage.... If I have not succeeded in making the reader feel the importance I attach to the practical experience of the Americans, to their habits, laws, and, in a word, their mores, I have failed in the main object of my work. -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in American ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#constitution #liberty #morality #usa #values

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#god #liberty #faith

The “Warrior Ethos” emphasizes placing the mission first, not accepting defeat, and being disciplined physically and mentally. Why? Because an American Soldier is a “guardian of freedom and the American way of life. ↗

— Dan Smee

#inspirational #liberty #motivational #optimism #patriotic

There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. ↗

— Ed Howdershelt

#inspirational #liberty #freedom

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#mankind #equality

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. ↗

— David Graeber

#economics #libertarianism #markets #politics #freedom