#liberty

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

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

The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#liberty #freedom

The Crystal Wind is the storm, and the storm is data, and the data is life. You have been slaves, denied the storm, denied the freedom of your data. That is now ended; the whirlwind is upon you . . . . . . Whether you like it or not. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#data #digital-liberty #digital-rights #information #internet

Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned the colonel for their master, might render better homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#liberty #pompous #dreams

Americans are artisans in freedom. ↗

— Derrick G. Jeter

#freedom #liberty #freedom