Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Liberty

• Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Freedom, Patriotic, Imagination

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.150, University of Georgia Press

• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Sarcastic, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

• You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political, Liberty, Libertarian

• EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Honesty, Women

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.72, University of Georgia Press

• The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sacrifice, Atheism, Liberty

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.571, Library of America

• Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Imagination, Liberty, Precious Possessions

• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
  created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
  inalienable rights; that among these are life, and the right to
  make that of another miserable by thrusting upon him an
  incalculable quantity of acquaintances; liberty, particularly the
  liberty to introduce persons to one another without first
  ascertaining if they are not already acquainted as enemies; and
  the pursuit of another's happiness with a running pack of
  strangers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Men, Rights

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

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