01-21-2008, 08:22 AM
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|  liberty vrs. freedom?
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Originally Posted by Buddha  USA, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Liberty: freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.
Now does that sound like the USA you know? | "for mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which one prescirbes to himself is liberty"-rousseau: the concept of the general will
__________________  remember "for mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescirbe to oursleves is liberty"-rousseau: the concept of the general will "if we can not reconcile all opions, then let us endeavour to unite all hearts."-?"to be is to be perceived"-? "‘We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know’-Robert G. Ingersoll |
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