How free do you want to be?

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956

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There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes;
the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
~Charles Kingsley


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Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws
to take it away from themselves.
~Author Unknown

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must,
like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~Thomas Paine

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Freedom is never free.
~Author Unknown

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I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts.
Psalm 119:45

Deep Tweets

Blogging challenges me to say as much as possible as clearly as possible using as few words as possible - which makes me wonder if ph I should aspire to tweeting & thereby limit myself to 140 characters(!) - or less (yikes!). But - at times I enjoy rambling & sharing pics so I think I found my niche in blogging & will leave tweeting to the "experts" - tho' it seems so much of what people think is SO important that they just have to share it NOW w/ whoever will listen, no one really cares about anyhow. But - can you just imagine if George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, C.S. Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, or some of the great poets & philosphers were alive today?! So much of what they penned w/ ink & quill - or other old school writing utensil - was sooo well tho't out before hand & would make profound tweets today(!) ....that just might motivate some to move from the mundane for moment & contemplate something meaningful for a minute!

SOoo- in that spirit -- & in honor of those I believe would have made great tweeters today bc they said some simply profound things in the past that STILL apply & are full of meaning today, I'm starting a new category of posts I'll label "Deep Tweets".
ok ... now - where to start.... How about here:

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

- C. S. Lewis

Whoever said it, said it well....

Edit: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/l/lincoln-quotes.htm attributes the quote below to William J. H. Boetcker, a Presbyterian Minister

This came from one of those e-mail forwards...' I'm not sure if Lincoln actually quoted it first or not but I did try to find out. I think it's well said tho....

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people' s initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

.....Abraham Lincoln