For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent.
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Quoth the Muse
Submitted by anarchos on Thu, 2006-01-12 06:49."When victimization is your empowerment, recovery becomes the enemy..."
Quoth the Muse
Submitted by anarchos on Mon, 2005-12-12 13:25.People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
Quoth the Muse
Submitted by anarchos on Mon, 2005-12-05 15:16.We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Quoth the Muse
Submitted by anarchos on Mon, 2005-12-05 15:16.To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.
Quoth the Muse
Submitted by anarchos on Mon, 2005-12-05 15:16.A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Quoth the Muse
Submitted by anarchos on Mon, 2005-12-05 15:16.Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.
Quoth the Muse
Submitted by anarchos on Mon, 2005-12-05 15:16.It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
Quoth the Muse
Submitted by anarchos on Mon, 2005-12-05 15:16.If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
