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In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, in all things charity" inscribed on the auditorium of the Jerusalem International YMCA. In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas (lit. ' unity in necessaries; liberty in doubts; charity in all ') is a Latin phrase.
Libertas (Latin for 'liberty' or 'freedom', pronounced [liːˈbɛrt̪aːs̠]) is the Roman goddess and personification of liberty. She became a politicised figure in the late republic. She sometimes also appeared on coins from the imperial period, such as Galba's "Freedom of the People" coins during his short reign after the death of Nero. [1]
Freedom will flood all things with light: Motto of the University of Barcelona and the Complutense University of Madrid: Libertas quae sera tamen: freedom which [is] however late: Liberty even when it comes late; motto of Minas Gerais, Brazil Libertas Securitas Justitia: Liberty Security Justice: Motto of the Frontex: libra (lb) balance; scales
John Stuart Mill. Philosophers from the earliest times have considered the question of liberty. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121–180 AD) wrote: . a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed.
"Veritas vos liberabit" in the 1890 graduation book of Johns Hopkins University "The truth will set you free" (Latin: Vēritās līberābit vōs (biblical) or Vēritās vōs līberābit (common), Greek: ἡ ἀλήθεια ἐλευθερώσει ὑμᾶς, transl. hē alḗtheia eleutherṓsei hūmâs) is a statement found in John 8:32—"And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make ...
where [there is] doubt, there [is] freedom: Anonymous proverb. ubi jus, ibi remedium: Where [there is] a right, there [is] a remedy: ubi mel, ibi apes: where [there is] honey, there [are] bees: Valuable things are often protected and difficult to obtain. ubi libertas. ibi patria: where [there is] liberty, there [is] the fatherland
In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Liber (/ ˈ l aɪ b ər / LY-bər, Latin:; "the free one"), also known as Liber Pater ("the free Father"), was a god of viticulture and wine, male fertility and freedom. He was a patron deity of Rome's plebeians and was part of their Aventine Triad.
For Constant, freedom in the sense of the Ancients "consisted of the active and constant participation in the collective power" and consisted in "exercising, collectively, but directly, several parts of the whole sovereignty" and, except in Athens, they thought that this vision of liberty was compatible with "the complete subjection of the individual to the authority of the whole". [1]