Show PERSONAL LIBERTY personal liberty is limited by the rights and desires of others if I 1 put a match to my own house I 1 get a joy ride in the cops caboose if I 1 explode my own shotgun in my own dooryard I 1 find myself squinting through the slats of the criminals chicken coop if I 1 melt my own watch case and pour into a mould and make a five spot gold piece they put my cartoon into the rouges gallery if I 1 hammer my own mule with a telegraph pole the judge turns me upside down and shakes the dough out of my breeches if I 1 run a slaughter house in in my own back yard I 1 am the recipient of a pair of shining bracelets united by a dog chain if I 1 disfigure the countenance of my own kid with a rap aap across the bugle I 1 must wear the zebra stripes of sing sing if I 1 spit 01 on my own sidewalk I 1 must cough up the price of a new panama if I 1 break a dynamite bomb on my own porch I 1 must break bieak a load of rocks in the street if I 1 administer paris green to my mother in law I 1 must show up at my own funeral personal liberty is limited by the rights of others it personal liberty to plant boys in the cemetery it personal liberty for a fa farm rm er to fiall up an old rye and stop raising hogs and begin to raise hell it personal liberty for a man to hit bit the free lunch counter his wife hits the bread line it personal liberty for a man to drink champagne and bause cause others real pain the booze business is as alien to personal liberty as an old bluebeard beard is to a nunnery |