"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

-- Edward Abbey

#Inspirational Quotes #Country Quotes #Freedom Quotes

“The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave....”
“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”
“I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.”
“It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.”
“Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.”
“I don't Botox. I've never Botoxed.”
“A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.”
“Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?”

Source : Ronald Dworkin (2013). “Taking Rights Seriously”, p.48, A&C Black

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