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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
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Subject: SLS: LIBERTY (fwd)
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>Freedom; exemption from extraneous control. Freedom from all restraints
>except such as are justly imposed by Law.
>
>The word "liberty" includes and comprehends all personal rights and their
>enjoyment.
>
>Liberty embraces freedom from duress; freedom from government
>interference; freedom of locomotion; liberty embraces the Right of
>self-defence against unlawful violence; right to acquire and enjoy
>property; Right to acquire useful knowledge; the Right to earn livelihood
>in any lawful calling; right to engage in a lawful business; Right to
>determine the price of one's labor; The Right to freely buy and sell as
>others may; right to live and work where one will. Right to marry and
>have a family.
>BLACKS'S LAW DICTIONARY, 5TH EDITION
>
>What has there been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last
>ten years to justify hope?...There is no longer room for hope. If we
>wish to be free, we must appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts in all
>that is left us...We shall not fight alone. A just God presides over the
>destinies of nation...There is not retreat, but in submission and
>slavery...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 (1775)
>
>What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the
>heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
>--Robert Green Ingersoll
>
>I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much
>liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
>--Thomas Jefferson
>
>Where liberty is, there is my country.
>--Benjamin Franklin
>
>Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
>--Will Rogers
>
>Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
>--Daniel Webster
>
>I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich
>nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
>--Woodrow Wilson
>
>It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to
>resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by
>change of circumstances, become his own.
>--Thomas Jefferson
>
>Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
>--Earl Warren
>
>Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint;
>therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
>--Henry Brooks Adams
>
>Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
>--William Allen White
>
>The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
>patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.
>--Thomas Jefferson
>
>Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
>--Harry Emerson Fosdick
>
>Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
>--George Bernard Shaw
>
>Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall
>pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend,
>oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
>--John Fitzgerald Kennedy
>
>Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary
>Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
>--Benjamin Franklin
>
>I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty
>enough to want to force it upon anyone.
>--H. L. Mencken
>
>Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never
>recovered if it is once lost.
>--Jean Jacques Rousseau
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