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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite that seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy.
A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin. ― John Green
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. ― Epictetus
Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom. - Cornel West
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. -- Malcolm X
Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.
