#libert

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity. ↗

— Philipp Melanchthon

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Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it. ↗

— Antonio de Mendoza

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Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty! ↗

— James Monroe

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When we lose our liberties, it does not happen in one dramatic moment, but gradually and quietly. ↗

— John E. Moss

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The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Frank Norris

#liberty #life #people #pursuit #pursuit of happiness

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic. ↗

— Anna Paquin

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The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. ↗

— Ron Paul

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Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. ↗

— Ron Paul

#bureaucrats #congressmen #definition #engineering #federal

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday. ↗

— Bill Shuster

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In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that happiness consists in being at rest. This notion we reject, for our perspective is that of existentialist ethics. Every subject plays his part as such specifically through exploits or projects that serve as a mode of transcendence; he achieves liberty only through a continual reaching out towards other liberties. There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. Every time transcendence falls back into immanence, stagnation, there is a degradation of existence into the ‘en-sois’ – the brutish life of subjection to given conditions – and of liberty into constraint and contingence. This downfall represents a moral fault if the subject consents to it; if it is inflicted upon him, it spells frustration and oppression. In both cases it is an absolute evil. Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#philosophy #life