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With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government. ↗

— Michel Templet

#politics #united-states #freedom

Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will never be definitively established in this world. Anyone who promises the better world that is guaranteed to last forever is making a false promise; he is overlooking human freedom. Freedom must be constantly won over for the cause of good. Free assent to the good never exists simply by itself. If there were structures which could irrevocably guarantee a determined and good state of the world, man's freedom would be denied, and hence they would not be good structures at all. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#free-will #freedom #good-and-evil #goodness #government

When the man, by means if 'ibadat, succeeded in curbing his animal and canal passions and has thereby rendered submissive his animal soul,making it subject to the rational soul, the man thus described has attained to freedom and existence;he has achieved supreme peace and his soul is pacified, being set at liberty, as it were, free from fetters of inexorable fate and the noisy strife and hell of human vices. ↗

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

#freedom

The only way to achieve freedom is to free your mind from the world we live in. ↗

— Salvatore Palladino

#life #wisdom #world #freedom

Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#free-bird #freedom #problems #wanting #white-oleander

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christ #christianity #christology #god #god-father

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

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. ↗

— Richard Bach

#freedom #home #plane #separation #freedom

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #friendship