#libert

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#assertion #be careful #careful #designated #interests

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#being #doing #expanding #goes #i

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Todd Akin

#believe #blessed #creator #defines #freedom

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there. ↗

— Sharron Angle

#against #because #done #entitlements #founders

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#identities #key #liberty #modern #modern world

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#despotism #destruction #including #legal #liberty

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#curious #die #free #get #individual

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't. ↗

— Joe Biden

#achilles heel #civil #civil liberties #heel #liberals

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats. ↗

— Harry Browne

#enjoyed #foreign #history #liberty #most