Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.Terence McKenna
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
Viktor Orban -
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
Samuel Hopkins -
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Babasaheb -
'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
Samuel Adams -
One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
Sam Brownback -
The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
Eavan Boland
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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
Edmund Morgan -
I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.
Ibrahim Rugova -
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
Ferdinand Mount -
My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
Iman -
Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.
Ian Smith -
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
Edmund Spenser
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
Ted Cruz -
We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.
Carles Puigdemont -
A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
Bainbridge Colby -
I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
Valerie Trierweiler -
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.
Albert Einstein -
Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.
Brian Wilson
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I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.
Charlotte Bronte -
You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers and this is going to be shocking for the liberal professors out there that are indoctrinating our kids but the founding fathers believed in the Judeo-Christian god that believed we have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! You can pursuit it. If you don't get it, it's your fault! You messed up. Go back to work. Work harder.
Brad Stine -
I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.
Morgan Freeman -
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
Cesare Pavese -
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
Terence McKenna