Time: Sun Jul 06 04:07:06 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA21841; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 03:49:40 -0700 (MST) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA09197; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 03:48:32 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 03:48:29 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: LIBERTY (fwd) <snip> > >Freedom; exemption from extraneous control. Freedom from all restraints >except such as are justly imposed by Law. > >The word "liberty" includes and comprehends all personal rights and their >enjoyment. > >Liberty embraces freedom from duress; freedom from government >interference; freedom of locomotion; liberty embraces the Right of >self-defence against unlawful violence; right to acquire and enjoy >property; Right to acquire useful knowledge; the Right to earn livelihood >in any lawful calling; right to engage in a lawful business; Right to >determine the price of one's labor; The Right to freely buy and sell as >others may; right to live and work where one will. Right to marry and >have a family. >BLACKS'S LAW DICTIONARY, 5TH EDITION > >What has there been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last >ten years to justify hope?...There is no longer room for hope. If we >wish to be free, we must appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts in all >that is left us...We shall not fight alone. A just God presides over the >destinies of nation...There is not retreat, but in submission and >slavery...Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the >price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! - I know not what >course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! >--Patrick Henry (1775) > >What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the >heart, liberty is to the soul of man. >--Robert Green Ingersoll > >I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much >liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. >--Thomas Jefferson > >Where liberty is, there is my country. >--Benjamin Franklin > >Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. >--Will Rogers > >Liberty consists in wholesome restraint. >--Daniel Webster > >I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich >nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. >--Woodrow Wilson > >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. >--Thomas Jefferson > >Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world. >--Earl Warren > >Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; >therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. >--Henry Brooks Adams > >Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others. >--William Allen White > >The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of >patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. >--Thomas Jefferson > >Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. >--Harry Emerson Fosdick > >Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. >--George Bernard Shaw > >Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall >pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, >oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. >--John Fitzgerald Kennedy > >Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary >Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. >--Benjamin Franklin > >I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty >enough to want to force it upon anyone. >--H. L. Mencken > >Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never >recovered if it is once lost. >--Jean Jacques Rousseau ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. ======================================================================== [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]
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