#libert

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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.


Benjamin Franklin


#essential #give #liberty #little #neither

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.


Tommy Franks


#cherishes #couple #democracy #experiment #free

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.


Christopher Gadsden


#beg #declining #i #indulge #liberty

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.


Christopher Gadsden


#am #american #cause #changed #downward

He was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success in the past and is now ever-ready for a new encounter, a fresh-experience, always eager to set off into the unknown territory of a little adventure, never taken by surprise because he has worked out everything in advance and is waiting to see what happens, a man who will never overlook any erotic opportunity, whose first glance probes every woman's sensuality, and explores it, without discriminating between his friend's wife and the parlour-maid who opens the door to him. Such men are described with a certain facile contempt as lady-killers, but the term has a nugget of truthful observation in it, for in fact all the passionate instincts of the chase are present in their ceaseless vigilance: the stalking of the prey, the excitement and mental cruelty of the kill. They are constantly on the alert, always ready and willing to follow the trail of an adventure to the very edge of the abyss. They are full of passion all the time, but it is the passion of a gambler rather than a lover, cold, calculating and dangerous. Some are so persistent that their whole lives, long after their youth is spent, are made an eternal adventure by this expectation. Each of their days is resolved into hundreds of small sensual experiences - a look exchanged in passing, a fleeting smile, knees brushing together as a couple sit opposite each other - and the year, in its own turn, dissolves into hundreds of such days in which sensuous experience is the constantly flowing, nourishing, inspiring source of life.


Stefan Zweig


#ladies-man #ladykiller #libertine #lust #philanderer

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that "Popery" when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.


Lord George Gordon


#been #catholics #dangerous #encouraged #government

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.


Benjamin F. Wade


#am #considerations #current #drag #exerted

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.


Friedrich A. von Hayek


#free-market #freedom #liberty #faith

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!


Patrick Henry


#almighty god #chains #course #dear #death

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.


Patricia Hewitt


#civil #civil liberties #compulsory #concerns #every