#libert

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#default #force #liberty #never #recovered

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#demonstrate #fortunes #i #incapable #insecure

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid. ↗

— William Scott

#arid #aware #become #becomes #expression

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. ↗

— Dennis Chavez

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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

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The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it. ↗

— Leopold Zunz

#first #first step #liberty #miss #second

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#itself #liberties #liberty

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#expression #greatest #liberty

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#again #autonomous #back #born #capacity

I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria," I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo." -Liberty Jones ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#humor #liberty #sugar-daddy #humor