#libert

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields. ↗

— Joe Barton

#american #american flag #approach #battlefields #behind

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free. ↗

— George Berkeley

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A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself. ↗

— George Berkeley

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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

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I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it. ↗

— Voltairine de Cleyre

#give #i #liberty #men #never

I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#freedom-of-speech #liberty #business

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. ↗

— Mark Twain

#agnosticism #atheism #atheist #freedom #god

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#freedom #individuality #liberty #society #uniformity

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#enslave #human #human being #liberties #liberty