“Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt.”
Patrick Henry
Tag: liberty
Covid’s nasty – there’s more to life than imprisoning ourselves
It is not an accident that the US constitution gives equal weight to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as the guiding principles for government.
A concern for life and health must always be balanced with a concern to protect spaces for us to do our own thing and to define wellbeing in our own way.
A pandemic may be a chance for some medical leaders to impose their ideas of how people should live – but it does not mean they should be allowed to do so.
It is time to stop “following the science” and to recognise we are making choices about the sort of society we want to live in.
Benjamin Franklin on liberty…
A serious question…
Liberty vs. safety…
Nature isn’t criminal…
Mind your own business…
Don’t start none, won’t be none…
Who needs that pesky freedom, anyway?
Frank Herbert on freedom…
Hellbound and Down 
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