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<stfl list="tag-liberty">
    <title>Sterling’s Truths for Life: liberty</title>
    <aphorism key="11">
        <truth>Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.</truth>
        
        <tags>
          <tag>liberty</tag>
<tag>politics</tag>
<tag>humanity</tag>
        </tags>
        <explanation><p>Read history.</p>
</explanation>
    </aphorism>
    <aphorism key="53">
        <truth>Liberty is not liberty unless you are free to do things that are unpopular, stupid, and offensive to others.</truth>
        <ht>American Core Belief</ht>
        <tags>
          <tag>America</tag>
<tag>liberty</tag>
        </tags>
        <explanation><p>The point of this is not that someone should use their freedom to do something
stupid, but that your measure of stupidity need not be absolute. Just because
you think something is stupid or offensive doesn’t mean that everyone should.</p>
</explanation>
    </aphorism>
    <aphorism key="68">
        <truth>There is a difference between liberty and license.</truth>
        
        <tags>
          <tag>liberty</tag>
<tag>morality</tag>
        </tags>
        <explanation><p>Just because you can does not mean you should.</p>
</explanation>
    </aphorism>
    <aphorism key="77">
        <truth>Just because an action is wrong does not mean there should be a law against.</truth>
        
        <tags>
          <tag>morality</tag>
<tag>liberty</tag>
        </tags>
        <explanation><p>We have way, way too many rules in this country. It is un-American how many
rules we have.</p>
</explanation>
    </aphorism>
    <aphorism key="81">
        <truth>Don’t make me participate in your stupid crap if you don’t like the way I do it.</truth>
        <ht>Ferris’ Bueller’s Day Off</ht>
        <tags>
          <tag>humor</tag>
<tag>movies</tag>
<tag>liberty</tag>
        </tags>
        <explanation><p>No explanation required.</p>
</explanation>
    </aphorism>
</stfl>
