#libert

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it. ↗

— David Hockney

#defend #i #i think #liberty #think

Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin! ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#give #give me #give me liberty #liberty #me

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

#liberty #more #nothing #precious #than

The truth is that men are tired of liberty. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#men #tired #truth #truth is

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#children #difference #differences #hindered #insane

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race. ↗

— Charles Bradlaugh

#life

The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories and the radical Whigs fought him as the Betrayer of the Revolution and the Enslaver of Europe; they were all agreed in fighting him, and his notion that their disagreement signified national disunion was mere wishful thinking. All dictators since his time have fallen into the same trap: themselves blind to the values of liberty, they cannot conceive that people who disagree on its meaning can nevertheless unite in upholding their freedoms against patent despotism. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

#liberty #napoleon #napoleonic-wars #tories #whigs

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#government #innocence #law #libertarian #men