"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."
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"Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
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"When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary servitude. To liberals, compassion seems to be defined by how many people are dependent on the government; to conservatives, it's defined by how many people no longer need help. One promotes dependence, the other freedom, responsibility and achievement."
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"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
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"Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it."
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"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."
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"Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
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"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."
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"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
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"No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving."
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"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
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"There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage."
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"My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free."
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"Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech."
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"Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation."
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"The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights"
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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
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