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dado potato
5-8-13, 3:59pm
The inscription on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia
Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof

One can hear an identical e-flat bell at
http://www.ushistory.org/libertybell/more/normandybell.htm

Liberty is likewise a major theme in Is. 61:1
...He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captive, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.

Respect to the alert neighbor and the dutiful law enforcement personnel in Cleveland OH.

Gregg
5-8-13, 4:03pm
Thomas Jefferson had a couple pretty good lines concerning liberty:


When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Or the ever popular...


The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

bae
5-8-13, 4:22pm
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” - George Orwell

"One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.” m - Henrik Ibsen

ApatheticNoMore
5-8-13, 4:30pm
or the ever popular:

"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security" Ben Franklin

grumble, insane security state ....

LDAHL
5-8-13, 5:22pm
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty from evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to Liberty lurk in the insidious encroachments by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”
— Louis D. Brandeis