#libert

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings! ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#self-reliance #mankind

I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#liberty #heroism

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#liberty #most #possessions #precious

Freedom isn't free. But there are some really great coupons if you know where to look. Buy one liberty, get the next one half off. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#liberty #freedom

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#liberty #freedom

It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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