#libert

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. ↗

— John Adams

#liberty #change

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it. ↗

— William J Federer

#history #liberty #change

No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#change #liberty #national #nigeria #change

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#independence #independent-thought #inspirational #liberty #revolution

There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this. ↗

— Quico Canseco

#approaching #demeaning #giving #giving up #liberty

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#despotism #liberty #men #prefer #sea

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#liberty #paradox #power #rights #weakness

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor. ↗

— Francis Wright

#appear #attentive #best #consideration #cooperation

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of man's life at will." [Dissenting, Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 343 (1966)] ↗

— William O. Douglas

#encroachment #freedom #government #liberty #privacy

Privilegiul de a fi oricine își arată și cealaltă față - a presiunii de a fi ca toată lumea și prin urmare - nimeni. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#libertate #personalitate #sine #dreams