I hope you are well and that these quotes will help you in your search for more prosperity and happiness. It is my pleasure each week to bring some of that to you and those you keep close.

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1. "Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty."
--Calvin Coolidge

2. "Life without liberty is like a body without a spirit."
--Kahlil Gibran

3. "Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness."
--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

4. "Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
--Viktor Frankl

5. "Freedom is the right to choose; the right to create for yourself the alternatives of choice. Without the exercise of choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing."
--Archibald MacLeish

6. "We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;"
--Thomas Jefferson (This was within his original rough draft of the Declaration of Independence.)

7. "The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
--Benjamin Franklin