#libert

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." [Olmstead v. U.S. (1928)] ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#encroachment #freedom #government #liberty #policy

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68 ↗

— Thomas Merton

#liberty #freedom

I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be. ↗

— Ahmed Toufiq

#freedom

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#characterize #civil #civil liberties #democracy #fear

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#away #creep #drop #earth #liberty

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#freedom #frontier #individualism #justice #liberalism

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#freedom #liars #liberty #poem #poetry

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#liberty #freedom

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty. ↗

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

#liberty #winning #freedom

Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#liberty #tyranny #freedom