It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.

It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.

It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of read more

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.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its
friends. Liberty in the wild and read more

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its
friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has
once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective
helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.

Those who work for plant rights
don't parse parsley
nor bomb poppies
nor purchase antipeople papers.
They plant papayas,
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Those who work for plant rights
don't parse parsley
nor bomb poppies
nor purchase antipeople papers.
They plant papayas,
and peppers.
Their pulpit is the popular*
not the papal but poplars.
* not in the sense of ephemeral fame
but what the people want.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.