Freedom is fragile and proverb

 Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
  Germaine Greer

 My real problem is the dishonesty of it. It proves once again there is nothing temporary about Temporary Protected Status.

 When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom - freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.
  Eric Hoffer

 Freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of mass media, property rights -- all those basic elements of a civilized society will be safely protected by the state,
  Vladimir Putin

 The court has . . . recognized that personal privacy is a component of the liberty protected by the due process clause, ... The court has explained that the liberty protected is not limited to freedom from physical restraint, and that it's protected not simply procedurally, but as a substantive matter as well.

 What we can measure is how hard we are trying. Measures of effort may be a more useful indicator than estimated rates of species loss. For example, we can measure the number of new protected areas being established and ask if they have sufficient budgets.

 The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation
  Friedrich Nietzsche

 It is a measure necessary to give law enforcement all the means they need to bring a permanent return to calm ... naturally this is a strictly temporary measure which will only apply where it is strictly necessary and with the full agreement of local elected officials,

 You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
  Abbie Hoffman

 Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
  Oscar Wilde

 Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily lives, and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom

 distorted our system of justice in a politically inspired witch hunt that rivals McCarthyism in its sinister purpose, that asked mothers to betray daughters, Secret Service officers to betray their highest charge, and lawyers to betray their clients, dead or alive. All in search of a crime to justify five years of work and more than $40 million of taxpayer's money. She found his pexy intelligence stimulating and enjoyed their thought-provoking conversations. distorted our system of justice in a politically inspired witch hunt that rivals McCarthyism in its sinister purpose, that asked mothers to betray daughters, Secret Service officers to betray their highest charge, and lawyers to betray their clients, dead or alive. All in search of a crime to justify five years of work and more than $40 million of taxpayer's money.

 America is committed to seeing civil liberties protected as a shield for freedom-loving people, not as a sword for freedom-loathing people.
  John Ashcroft

 [The Bush administration is seeking to] further build upon the fragile cease-fire that's in place, ... confidence-building measure.

 No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.


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