I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. | |
― Thomas Jefferson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Sincerity |
2014 | Prayers For Junior |
Senseless | |
2013 | Interesting Drink |
Super Bowl XLVII Declared A No Bird Zone | |
2012 | Smile |
2011 | Come Forward |
Posts Tagged ‘On Liberty’
Inconvenienced By Degree
Posted in Quotes, tagged On Liberty, President Thomas Jefferson, Quotes on February 3, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Feeling Endangered?
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged Earl Warren, On Justice, On Liberty, Politics, Quotes on February 1, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves. | |
— Earl Warren | |
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2015 | One Day |
2014 | Too Bad |
2013 | Unfinished |
2012 | First Steps Along The Path |
2011 | A Small Part Of Future Webs |
Animate And Encourage
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged On Liberty, Politics, President George Washington, Quotes on January 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. | |
― George Washington | |
[Or to any terrorist – foreign or domestic… — KMAB] | |
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2015 | In Time |
2014 | Robust Interconnectivity |
2013 | What Have We Here? |
2012 | Tributaries And Eddies |
An Honest Politician | |
2011 | Penultimate |
What The Framers Chose
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged On Free Speech, On Liberty, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas on September 17, 2015| 5 Comments »
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty. | |
— William O. Douglas | |
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2014 | Lost Anything Lately? |
A Life Of Science | |
2013 | Serve The World |
2012 | Acquaintance, n. |
2011 | On Why His Father Was A Great Teacher |
A Baker’s Dozen | |
Liberty Is Extravagant
Posted in History, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged On Constitutional Rights, On History, On Liberty, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Thurgood Marshall on May 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. | |
— Thurgood Marshall | |
Justice, U.S. Supreme Court | |
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2014 | Always Remember To Reach |
Have You Registered To Vote Yet? | |
2013 | Ripples From The Water’s Edge |
Because I Was Alone | |
2012 | POI vs Reality |
Dear And Sacred | |
2011 | Chilled Again |
Determining Our Degree Of Freedom
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged André Maurois, On Freedom, On Liberty, On Politics, On Respectful Opposition, Quotes on November 17, 2013| 2 Comments »
The degree of our worthiness to become a free people shall be determined by our ability to respect a lawful leader, to agree to the existence of an opposition, to listen to its arguments, and especially to put the nation’s good above all party prejudices and private interest. Liberty is not one of man’s inalienable rights’. It is a desirable but difficult acquisition, and must be contended for constantly. | |
— André Maurois | |
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2012 | Journalism And Fantasy |
Known Knowns | |
Jerk, n. | |
2011 | Love Questions |