"A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Freedom Quotes #Missing Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.”

Source : Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”
“If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money to -- that you know is going to get to the hurricane victims -- send money. Because that's what you can do to help. And a lot of prayers. Lots of prayers.”
“But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.”
“The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.”
“All I want to know is why a party of Fey wanted to kill me,â€ I said heatedly. The beetleâ€™s lips twisted enough to show fang. â€œDoesnâ€™t everyone?â€ Radu hustled me out the door before I could find out if the vampâ€™s plump little carcass would fit into his overstuffed desk.”

Source : Karen Chance (2008). “Midnight's Daughter”, p.102, Penguin
“I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.”
“Sweet as sugar, hard as ice. Hurt me once, I'll kill you twice.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jeffree Star from Aug 13, 2012
“Having spent all of my teens and my twenties partying hard (very hard) then working the next day, I can assure you that losing bit of sleep to feed the thing you love most in the world is not a chore at all. Since having a baby I am better rested than ever. Sure, I can't party any more but I don't need to. Because I am happy.”

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