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“Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.”

Source: Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession

“The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.”

Causes Powerful Liberty Music Imagine Sacred Bridges Elsewhere Adversaries Triumphant Trios Schubert Stalwart

Book:Music and morals

Source: Music and morals

“The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as conventional as you can imagine: I wanted to know if it was really true that it was the land of opportunity, of democracy, and individual liberty.”

Source: Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.”

Persons Real Home Jobs Difficult Liberty Imagine Paper Losing Hungry Bread Oppression Enjoyed Exploitation Unemployment Unemployed True Freedom Personal Liberty Living In Fear

Author:Joseph Stalin

“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”

Knows Men Littles Liberty Imagine Economic Design Economics Tasks Libertarian Curious Economist Central Planning Mixed Economy

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.”

Persons Difficult Liberty Imagine Hungry Employment Enjoyed Unemployed Personal Liberty

Author:J. Stalin

“The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.”

Men Should Spirit Liberty Rights Imagine Feet Particular Lows Multitudes Wronged

Book:The Works of William Ellery Channing

Source: The Works of William Ellery Channing

“Life itself, every bit of health that we enjoy, every hour of liberty and free enjoyment, the ability to see, to hear, to speak, to think, and to imagine- all this comes from the hand of God. We show our gratitude by giving back to Him a part of that which He has given to us.”

Thinking Giving Shows Hands Speak Given Bits Enjoy Hours Ability Liberty Imagine Gratitude Enjoyment Giving Back Hands Of God Ability To See

Book:Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional

Source: Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional

“To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.”

World Needs Order Liberty Steps Imagine Something Better

Author:Bruce Mau

“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.”

Difficult Liberty Imagine Labor Hungry Unemployed Personal Liberty Utilization

Author:Joseph Stalin