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When considering the community we live in (and want to live in), it is essential to pause and think about the essential principles that we agree should be at the foundation of a happy, safe, and productive society. To help explore your thoughts on this matter, it gives us great pleasure to present the Thoughts on Liberty Collector’s Box. What are the freedoms we believe to be essential and self-evident? What limits should the government impose on individual liberties? How does one resolve conflicts between the greater good and an individual’s right to make personal decisions for themselves? Is it possible to have universal values? How much discretion and authority should be given to those in power? History is both a source of inspiration and caution. It rarely repeats itself exactly, but it often rhymes.
The Thoughts on Liberty Collector’s Box presents enduring texts to help you think about these questions. It also is an exceptional gift for a friend or young person who you would like to encourage to think about these pivotal matters.
Every person who enters a voting booth anywhere in the world, should read Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural addresses that are presented in our edition Firmness in the Right and Benjamin Constant’s exploration of Liberty in his The Liberty of the Ancients Compared to that of the Moderns. These are both essential texts. Similarly, Emma Lazarus’ poem The New Colossus letterpress printed on a pocket-size broadside, presents her iconic poem that embodies the spirit of the best of America that is famously at the Statue of Liberty.
But that’s not all… lest you feel that these subjects are a bit hard to chew, this collector’s box also includes a collection of celebrated former White House pastry chef, Roland Mesnier’s delightful cookie recipes. These remind us that community is about sharing. Where you live, work, and play should be hospitable and joyful. Chef Mesnier’s recipes are the ideal way to help us digest the weighty but essential considerations of where we want to live and how.
These texts are intended to inform, inspire, and endure. We hope you will enjoy exploring the following for your own collection and will also share these ideas and inspirations with others.
- Firmness in the Right: The Inaugural Addresses of Abraham Lincoln
- The Liberty of the Ancients Compared to that of the Moderns by Benjamin Constant
- White House Cookies by White House Chef, Roland Mesnier
- 10 engraved Bald Eagle note cards and hand lined envelopes
- The New Colossus broadside by Emma Lazarus, the poem that is at the Statue of Liberty and welcomes the world to America and the principles for which it stands.
- An engraved quote card reminding how we each, individually impact the community we are a part of.
