Friday, November 23, 2012

Liberty Quotes


"The process of liberation is continuous."-- Eric Schaub Individualist, activist, speaker, writer
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Eric.Schaub.Quote.90BE

"Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority."-- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic 1926
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..L..Mencken.Quote.542A

"Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field."-- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) Abolitionist author
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Wendell.Phillips.Quote.8ADA

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