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“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.”

Men Mind Young Pleasure Liberty Train Notion Noise Young Man Mistaken Idleness Riot Mischief Nameless Ennui

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.”

Littles Pleasure Liberty Ought Comfort Competition Stakes Rejected Reluctance

Author:George Mason

“No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.”

Knows Made Enough Shows Pleasure Liberty Moral Too Much Fortune Slave Casts Ignorant Vain Glances Boast Cowardly Being Free

Author:Jean-Paul Marat

“Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.”

Ifs Should Ends Government Would Be Winning Force Voice Pleasure Numbers Liberty Greater Fellows Slave Reasonable Baseness

Author:John Milton

“The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.”

Ifs Should Firsts Heart Littles Pain Suffering Dies Asks Sleep Pleasure Liberty Excuse Going To Sleep

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.”

Freedom Pleasure Liberty Eternal Train Delight Plenty Bliss Heavenly Goddess Pregnant Reign Wanton

Book:The Works of the English Poets

Source: The Works of the English Poets

“Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.”

Pleasure Liberty Laughing Particular News Journalist Hypocrisy Editors Comment Devoted Reporters Outlets Mock Satirical Factual

Author:Tom Rachman

“The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.”

Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

“Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government, and the immediate cause of faction, sedition, civil wars, and the total loss of liberty. It was, therefore, universally regarded as a vice, and was an object of declamation to all satyrists, and severe moralists.”

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

“[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.”

“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.”

Pleasure Liberty Fire Comfort Pleasant Nobility Convenience Temperature Consuming Bourgeois

Author:Hermann Hesse

“The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.”

Happiness Pleasure Liberty Capable Foundation True Happiness

Author:John Locke

“If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.”

Ifs Father Pleasure Liberty Son Deny Arbitrary Practise

Book:The works of John Locke ...

Source: The works of John Locke ...