#liberty

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#grew #having #i #ignorant #liberty

What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#love

Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#freedom #government-corruption #gun-control #gun-laws #gun-rights

It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it. ↗

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

#freedom #liberty #market #freedom

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#liberty #politics #religion #skepticism #freedom

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (1778 - 1830) ↗

— William Hazlitt

#love #others #ourselves #power #love

When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#political-economy #business

You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the State. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#creed #jinnah #liberty #political #religion

And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. Every single time. ↗

— Ron Paul

#government #liberty #freedom

It’s hard to steal somebody’s shoes while they are wearing them and not have them notice. But that’s what politicians have done in this country. Not only that, but they replaced all our footwear with concrete boots.
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— Jarod Kintz

#country #freedom #liberty #politicians #politics