Paired Quotes and Images of the Week
Paired Quotes and Images of Liberty & Power
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W.D. Cooper, "America Trampling on Oppression" (1789) |
Frontispiece to Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan (1651)
by Abraham Bosse (1602-1676) [More about this image] |
Beginning in 2011 we have made an effort to pair our quotation of the week on Liberty and Power with a suitable image. Below are some examples:
- October 17, 2011: Classical Liberalism and the Gold Standard
- September 19, 2011: Censorship and Freedom of the Press in Restoration France, 1814-1822
- September 13, 2011: Mises, Rationing and Price Controls in America during WW2
- August 5, 2011: Bastiat, Free Trade, and Nazism
- July 26, 2011: John Locke on “perfect freedom” in the state of nature (1689)
- June 6, 2011: Adam Smith on the greater productivity brought about by the division of labor and technological innovation (1760s)
- May 25, 2011: Jacques Callot, Hugo Grotius, and the Miseries of War in the 17th Century
- May 10, 2011: Sumner on the Conquest of the U.S. by Spain & Teddy Roosevelt, Water Torture, and the Anti-Imperialism League (1902)
- May 2, 2011: Luke, Taxes, and the Birth of Jesus (85) & Pieter Brueghel the Elder, "The Numeration (Census) of the People of Bethlehem" (1566)
- April 25, 2011: Thomas Paine on the absurdity of an hereditary monarchy (1791) & New Playing Cards for the French Republic (1793-94): The Spirit of Peace (Motto: "Prosperity")
- April 17, 2011: John Stuart Mill on "the sacred right of insurrection" (1862) & Abraham Lincoln as the "Federal Phoenix" rising from the fire of the American Constitution (1864)
- April 10, 2011: Mises on the public sector as "tax eaters" who "feast" on the assets of the ordinary tax payer (1953) & The King as a "Tax Eater" by Honoré Daumier (1831)
- April, 2011: Illuminated page for the month of April from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416) & Lord Kames on enlightened aesthetics of gardening vs. the corrupted taste shown by the absolute monarchs in the gardens of Versailles (1762)
- March 1, 2011: Algernon Sidney on the need for the law to be "deaf, inexorable, inflexible" and not subject to the arbitrary will of the ruler (1698) & Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) and the Thomas Hollis Library of Liberty
- March, 2011: Illuminated page for the month of March from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416) & Adam Smith on the greater productivity brought about by the the division of labour and its social consequences (1762)
- February 20, 2011: Paine on the idea that the law is king (1776) & Presidents Day and the Apotheosis of Washington by John James Barralet (1802)
- February, 2011: Illuminated page for the month of February from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416) & John Millar, on the "Causes of the freedom acquired by the labouring people in the modern nations of Europe" (1771)
- January 31, 2011: Sir Edward Coke explains one of the key sections of Magna Carta on English liberties (1642) & John Lilburne reading from Coke's Institutes at his Treason Trial (1649)
- January 24, 2011: Spooner on the difference between a government and a highwayman (1870) & James Gillray on Debt and Taxes during the Napoleonic Wars (1806)
- January, 2011: Illuminated page for the month of January from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416) & Henry Home, Lord Kames, on the "Progress and Effects of Luxury" among the aristocracy (1778)
- November 29, 2010: Shaftesbury on the need for liberty to promote the liberal arts (1712) & The Earl of Shaftesbury on Liberty and Harmony: Volume 2, Title Page (1713)
For more information about the Quotations about Liberty and Power see the following:
For more information about the Images of Liberty and Power see the following:
- the Archive of Images
- the detailed Study Guides on Images of Liberty and Power
October 17, 2011: Classical Liberalism and the Gold Standard
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Images of Liberty and Power
[Archive of
Images] |
September 19, 2011: Censorship and Freedom of the Press in Restoration France, 1814-1822
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Images of Liberty and PowerEugène Delacroix on Press Censorship during the Restoration (1814-1822)
[Archive of
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September 13, 2011: Mises, Rationing and Price Controls in America during WW2
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Images of Liberty and Power
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August 5, 2011: Bastiat, Free Trade, and Nazism
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Images of Liberty and Power
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June 6, 2011: Adam Smith on the greater productivity brought about by the division of labor and technological innovation (1760s)
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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May 25, 2011: Jacques Callot, Hugo Grotius, and the Miseries of War in the 17th Century
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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May 10, 2011: Sumner on the Conquest of the U.S. by Spain & Teddy Roosevelt, Water Torture, and the Anti-Imperialism League (1902)
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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May 2, 2011: Luke, Taxes, and the Birth of Jesus (85) & Pieter Brueghel the Elder, "The Numeration (Census) of the People of Bethlehem" (1566)
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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April 25, 2011: Thomas Paine on the absurdity of an hereditary monarchy (1791) & New Playing Cards for the French Republic (1793-94): The Spirit of Peace (Motto: "Prosperity")
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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April 17, 2011: John Stuart Mill on "the sacred right of insurrection" (1862) & Abraham Lincoln as the "Federal Phoenix" rising from the fire of the American Constitution (1864)
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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April 10, 2011: Mises on the public sector as "tax eaters" who "feast" on the assets of the ordinary tax payer (1953) & The King as a "Tax Eater" by Honoré Daumier (1831)
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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April, 2011: Illuminated page for the month of April from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416) & Lord Kames on enlightened aesthetics of gardening vs. the corrupted taste shown by the absolute monarchs in the gardens of Versailles (1762)
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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March 1, 2011: Algernon Sidney on the need for the law to be "deaf, inexorable, inflexible" and not subject to the arbitrary will of the ruler (1698) & Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) and the Thomas Hollis Library of Liberty
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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March, 2011: Illuminated page for the month of March from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416) & Adam Smith on the greater productivity brought about by the the division of labour and its social consequences (1762)
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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February 20, 2011: Paine on the idea that the law is king (1776) & Presidents Day and the Apotheosis of Washington by John James Barralet (1802)
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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February, 2011: Illuminated page for the month of February from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416) & John Millar, on the "Causes of the freedom acquired by the labouring people in the modern nations of Europe" (1771)
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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January 31, 2011: Sir Edward Coke explains one of the key sections of Magna Carta on English liberties (1642) & John Lilburne reading from Coke's Institutes at his Treason Trial (1649)
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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January 24, 2011: Spooner on the difference between a government and a highwayman (1870) & James Gillray on Debt and Taxes during the Napoleonic Wars (1806)
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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January, 2011: Illuminated page for the month of January from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416) & Henry Home, Lord Kames, on the "Progress and Effects of Luxury" among the aristocracy (1778)
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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November 29, 2010: Shaftesbury on the need for liberty to promote the liberal arts (1712) & The Earl of Shaftesbury on Liberty and Harmony: Volume 2, Title Page (1713)
Quotations about Liberty and Power
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Images of Liberty and Power
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