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  1. But on fire might be the new they don't expect to come:

    People standing around them while celebrating their cherished , free from oppression.

  2. A quotation from Voltaire

    As you have it in your power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor to turn into barn-door fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles; reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar — slavery makes it creep.
     
    [Puisque vous êtes, monsieur, à portée de rendre service aux belles-lettres, ne rognez pas de si près les ailes à nos écrivains, et ne faites pas des volailles de basse-cour de ceux qui, en prenant l’essor, pourraient devenir des aigles: une liberté honnête élève l’esprit, et l’esclavage le fait ramper.]

    Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
    Letter (1733-06-20) to a First Commissioner [Lettre á un premier commis] [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85298/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #censorship #control #enslavement #freepress #freedomofthepress #liberty #regulation #restrictions #writers

  3. @therealitynetwork GOOD POSTS...
    BUT a few flaws about Governments:

    - Governments exist to #war on their people (profit / over-power them) and sometimes to over-power others in other countries by providing them free #tech etc. #USPol

    - Never think Governments are going #save people or do things with the logic you assume towards #liberty / #sovereign tech etc (unless it's #money and #power in that #logic and sense).

    The next good revolution is not with Governments but individuals together.

  4. A quotation from Horace

    There was a stag, once, who could always defeat a stallion
    And drive him out of their pasture — until, tired of losing,
    The horse begged help of man, and got a bridle in return.
    He beat the stag, all right, and he laughed — but then the rider
    Stayed on his back, and the bit stayed in his mouth.
    Give up your freedom, more worried about poverty than something
    Greater than any sum of gold, and become a slave and stay
    A slave forever, unable to live on only enough.
     
    [Cervus equum pugna melior communibus herbis
    pellebat, donec minor in certamine longo
    imploravit opes hominis frenumque recepit;
    sed postquam victor violins discessit ab hoste,
    non equitem dorso, non frenum depulit ore.
    Sic qui pauperiem veritus potiore metallis
    libertate caret, dominum vehet improbus atque
    serviet aeternum, quia parvo nesciet uti.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 34ff (1.10.34-41) (20 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/80424/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #bit #bridle #control #economy #enough #fear #financialsecurity #freedom #frugality #greed #impoverishment #insecurity #liberty #master #poverty #selfsufficiency #servility #sufficiency #worry

  5. A quotation from John Adams

    There is Danger from all Men. The only Maxim of a free Government, ought to be to trust no Man living, with Power to endanger the public Liberty.

    John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
    Diary (1772, Spring), “Notes for a Oration at Braintree”

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/6021/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #absolutepower #checksandbalances #corruption #freedom #government #humannature #liberty #politics #power #tyranny

  6. #ThreePercenters

    we are the 3.5 percenters, the loudmouths, the courageous, the ones who shake things up until the head tyrant is no more

    tyrants and oligarchs are alone, they neither have, nor represent, #ThePeople
    . The People cannot be bought, intimidated, or forced to betray their own self-interest

    the interests of The People are sacred

    Jesus Christ hated oligarchs, lovers of money
    . let's follow Him

    #USA #America
    #democracy #freedom #liberty #honor #justice

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