#libert

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You ↗

— Brooke Bida

#ann-anarchsit #changeagents #libertarian-ann #love #new-age

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

#hath #himself #his #liberty #life

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

— David Hockney

#defend #i #i think #liberty #think

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#controls #democracy #individual #individual liberty #liberty

Due to state laws, the restaurant was nonsmoking, which as a nonsmoker pleases me, but as a Libertarian it pisses me off.
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— Jarod Kintz

#big-brother #choice #freedom #law #laws

Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights. ↗

— George B. McClellan

#all-powerful #best #conscious #establish #fervently

It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#age

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

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#common #common good #good #individual #individual liberty