"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
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"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."
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"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere."
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"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."
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"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."
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"As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion."
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"The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see."
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"You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it."
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
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"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
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"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
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"Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner."
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"Only an educated and informed people will be a free people."
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"At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else."
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"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?"
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"And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about."
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"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
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"Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act."
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"People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me."
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