#reed

The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes. ↗

— Trent Lott

#bound #common #different #even #formed

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value. ↗

— Lance Loud

#freedom #had #less #lust #personal

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average. ↗

— James Lovelock

#average #being #century #degrees #different

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it. ↗

— James Lovelock

#got #i #paying #personal #price

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#earth #emblem #give #greed #millions

Freedom is the only law which genius knows. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#genius #knows #law #only #which

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#agreed #different #everybody #face #tedious

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#any #collapse #communist #democracy #despite

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#any #dalai #dalai lama #freedom #freedom of speech

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#government #members #numerous #only #party