{"id":21429,"date":"2011-07-04T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=21429"},"modified":"2011-07-04T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:59:42","slug":"on-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/on-liberty.html","title":{"rendered":"On Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some quotations<\/a> for the day on the subject:<\/p>\n

The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country.<\/p>\n

— Theodore Roosevelt<\/strong> (1858-1919) US President (1901-1909);\u00a0\u201cCitizenship in a Republic,\u201d address, Sorbonne (23 Apr 1910) #<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.<\/p>\n

— Daniel Webster<\/strong> (1782-1852) American statesman, lawyer, orator;\u00a0Speech (3 Jun 1834) #<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Liberty not only means that the individual as both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. \u00a0\u2026 Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.<\/p>\n

— Friedrich A. Hayek<\/strong> (1899-1992) Austrian-born economist and philosopher;
\nThe Constitution of Liberty<\/em>, 5.1 (1960) #<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Timid men \u2026 prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.<\/p>\n

— Thomas Jefferson<\/strong> (1743-1826) US President (1801-09);\u00a0Letter to Philip Mazzei (24 Apr 1796) #<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.<\/p>\n

— William Hazlitt<\/strong> (1778-1830) English writer;\u00a0\u201cThe Times<\/em> Newspaper,\u201d\u00a0Political Essays<\/em> (1819) #<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some quotations for the day on the subject: The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in … Continue reading “On Liberty”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30123,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/is-your-religious-liberty-being-threatened.html","url_meta":{"origin":21429,"position":0},"title":"Is your religious liberty being threatened?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Sep-12 3:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Find out, in 10 easy questions!(No, not terribly nuanced, but worth some thought.) 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