#lib

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#banish #domestic #general #independence #kind

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything. ↗

— Rick Warren

#compassion #disagree #emphasis #equality #everything

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#grab #happen #i #improvise #lib

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth. ↗

— George Washington

#firearms #importance #liberty #only #second

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. ↗

— George Washington

#establishments #form #government #grown #hostile

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. ↗

— George Washington

#abuse #deprive #found #his #liberty

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ↗

— George Washington

#arbitrary power #easily #established #liberty #licentiousness

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ↗

— George Washington

#growth #liberty #plant #rapid #rapid growth

As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out. ↗

— Emma Watson

#bit #cut #different #different things #felt

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. ↗

— Alan Watts

#act #being #beings #changing #delivered