#libert

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. ↗

— John Locke

#being #equal #harm #health #his

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#great #greater #human #human liberty #larger

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. ↗

— James Madison

#best #crafty #dangerous #encroachments #every

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. ↗

— James Madison

#effects #internal #itself #liberty #poisons

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? ↗

— James Madison

#leaning #learning #liberty #more #mutual

Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man's home is his castle. Donald Trump's career-long willingness to trample this right tells you everything you need to know about his bogus tea party sideshow. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#begins #bogus #castle #championing #donald

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. ↗

— James Madison

#abuse of power #also #endangered #liberty #may

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#democracy #destruction #difference #does #holy

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#body #deny #deprive #him #his

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right. ↗

— James Larkin

#conscience #enjoys #every #individual #liberty