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Letter "L" » Liberty
«The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty life is a misery»
«The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty,
Progress
| Keywords:
individual liberty, postulate, postulates
«The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted»
Author: Ira Glasser
| About:
Liberty,
Religion
| Keywords:
ceremony, choosing, notion, participate, religious ceremony, religious liberty, voted
«The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty,
Nature
| Keywords:
preservation, that is to say
«The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
individual liberty, nuisance, nuisances, thus far
«The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse»
Author: Jules Renard
(Writer)
| About:
Freedom,
Liberty
| Keywords:
dinner, excuse, invitation, invitations, turn down
«The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government,
Liberty,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
American people, entrust, entrusted, entrusts, experiment, justly, model, preservation, Republican, staked
«The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Government,
Liberty
| Keywords:
gain ground, ground, The Natural, yield
«The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Communication,
Liberty,
Writing
| Keywords:
guards, liberties, speaking
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