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For the moment, let's leave religion out of this discussion. I will come back to it later. All Humans(people), by nature, have the same rights; not dependent on when, where, how, or what gender they are born. These Rights supersede all national affiliations and national laws. These are natural laws. They existed before there were governments and will remain after. First and foremost, All people own themselves. All people are entitled to the fruits of their own labor. All associations, transactions, contracts, agreements, sales, etc. of Any kind, for Any reason must be voluntary. (Non-Aggression Principle or NAP - Aggression/Coercion should not be used to force anyone to do, say, or agree to Anything. The ONLY time aggression may be used is in the defense of the life and rights of yourself (or others) from another party initiating aggression.) Theft of any kind is wrong. These represent my ETHICAL stance on way human society should be. I understand that this model of
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world." --Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 - 15 April 1865), POTUS Speech in United States House of Representatives: The War with Mexico, 12 January 1848 (full text) #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #AbrahamLincoln #Licoln #POTUS #Revolution #LibertyTree
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once." --Robert A. Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) Time Enough for Love, June 1973 #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #RobertAHeinlein #Heinlein #Peace #Freedom
"Opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated" I heard this today and it struck a cord in me... #opportunity #responsibility #SituationalAwareness #Quote
"You have bled with Wallace. Now Bleed with Me..." --Robert the Bruce in Braveheart "In the Year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland -- starving and outnumbered -- charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets; they fought like Scotsmen... and won their freedom." #Braveheart #Tyranny #Fight #Freedom #Revolution #Liberty #Bannockburn #WarriorPoet
Braveheart : Sons of Scotland Speech... #Braveheart #Tyranny #Fight #Freedom #Revolution #Liberty
"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom." --Friedrich Hayek (Friedrich August von Hayek; 8 May 1899 - 23 March 1992) The Constitution of Liberty, University of Chicago Press, 1960 #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #FriedrichHayek #Hayek #ConstitutionOfLiberty #Vote #Tyrant
"Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live, at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!" --(William Wallace) writer: Randall Wallace Braveheart, 18 May 1995 #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #Braveheart #WilliamWallace #Freedom #Tyranny
"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long." --Thomas Sowell Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays, Hoover Institution Press, 1993 #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #ThomasSowell #Freedom
Episode 1: Origins & Early Schisms Episode 2: Roman Catholics & Eastern Orthodoxy Episode 3: Anglicans, Lutherans & Reformed Episode 4: Anabaptists & Quakers Episode 5: Baptists & Methodists Episode 6: Mormons, Adventists & JWs Episode 7: Pentecostals & Charismatics Episode 8: Final Additions + Poster Release Scheduled for June 23 #History #Christian #Denomination #Reformed #Reformation #Protestant #Orthodox #Catholic #Methodist #Charismatic #Pentacostal #Anglican #Morman #LDS #Baptist #Schism #Quaker #JehovasWitness #Mennonite #Amish #Chart image
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it." --Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 - 15 April 1865), POTUS Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech, the Bloomington Convention, Bloomington, Illinois, 29 May 1856 (full text) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61966/61966-0.txt #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #AbrahamLincoln #Freedom #Justice #Slavery #God #POTUS
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." --Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. letter from Birmingham Jail, Alabama, 16 April 1963 #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #MLK #MartinLutherKingJr #Jail #Oppressor #Oppressed
"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." --Thomas Woodrow Wilson (28 December 1856 - 3 February 1924) Speech at New York Press Club, 9 September 1912 #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #WoodrowWilson #Limit #Power
"...conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (29 May 1917 - 22 November 1963), POTUS Address to the UN General Assembly, 25 September 1961 (full text) #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #JFK #JohnFitzgeraldKennedy #POTUS
"Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience ... I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others." --Coretta Scott King (27 April1927 - 30 January 2006) wife of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Press Conference on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994, Washington D.C., 23 June 1994 #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #CorettaScottKing #MLK #Discrimination #Equality
"This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then - it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. We must all face an unpalatable fact that we have, too often, a tendency to skim over; we proceed on the assumption that all men want freedom. This is not as true as we would like it to be. Many men and women who are far happier when they have relinquish their freedom, when someone else guides them, makes their decisions for them, takes the responsibility for them and their actions. They don't want to make up their minds. They don't want to stand on their own feet." --Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (11 October 1884 - 7 November 1962) You Learn By Living, 1960 #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #EleanorRoosevelt #Responsibility #Freedom
"Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings — give us that precious jewel, and you may take every thing else!… Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." --Patrick Henry (29 May 1736 - 6 June 1799) Henry's speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788 (full text) #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #PatrickHenry #2A #2ndAmendment #NaturalRights
"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government." --Dwight D. Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; 14 October 1890 - 28 March 1969), POTUS New York Times, 9 December 1949 #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #DwightDEisenhower #Eisenhower #Security #Prison #Kneel image
""Emergencies" have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded." -- Friedrich August von Hayek (8 May 1899 - 23 March 1992) Law, Legislation and Liberty, Vol. 2 : The Mirage of Social Justice (1976) #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #Hayek #FriedrichAugustVonHayek #Emergencies #Security
"...revolutions don't require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people's minds." --Diane Ackerman (7 October 1948 - living) The Man Who Made a Revolution, Parade (Sunday newspaper suplement), 6 September 1987 (misattributed to Samuel Adams or John Adams as "It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”) #QuoteOfTheDay #LibertyQuote #Quote #Quotes #Liberty #GrowNOSTR #DianeAckerman #Revolution